Playing LACMA

Ben Meyers "plays" the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Playing LACMA" is an original composition, created entirely by Ben, using a Cannon 7D, a few microphones and a brief moment of quiet during construction of the museum's new exhibition pavilion. The museum invited Ben to respond to the new architectural space after seeing his video "Empty School" on YouTube. The Resnick Pavilion opens to the public on October 2nd, 2010. For more information, visit lacma.org/resnickpavilion.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• LACMA
• Resnick Pavilion
• museum
• art
• architecture
• Los Angeles
• drums
• percussion

[babushka34]

how did you film this? its really well filmed, what camera do you have?

[BrunoBolisarte]

As a recording engineer and musician, I have to counter SaltyTank07's comments about the sounds being overproduced. I don't hear any hints of production in this beyond a little basic EQ, and it's likely he edited this together in video editing software with little to no audio sweetening capabilities.

The palm trees in particular sound very natural and not "woody' to my ear.

[SaltyTank07]

This video would have been much much better if the sounds were natural and not edited so heavily after the fact. I highly doubt those cement squares make those perfect tones like that. If they did, it says a whole lot about the structural integrity of the building.

In addition, if you live in SoCal you probably see palm trees just like the ones featured in this video. I challenge anyone to strike one with the same type of instrument (xylophone type mallet) and see what you get.

This is FAIL.

[jonesy66691]

BADASS

[BlackRoseDragon13]

Very creative :D Epic!

[marketellica]

high five! awesome job.

[raffimin]

Percussive Parcour...very well done.

[davidmweiss]

Really brilliant job Ben. 

[TheBryanRasmussen]

Hi Ben--I showed your video in a class I'm teaching on theories of space--like public space, urban space, etc. Thought your vid was a great way to illustrate some of the ideas we've been talking about. Like, about transforming space and way we use it--like maybe looking at all space as a potential soundscape! Way to transform the space! Very cool!

[krzykeegs]

hey, better than the bucket drummers outside my office!