Stadsmuziek (City Music) @ the Milano Fuori Salone

"the music of the city",
concept and design by Akko Goldenbeld

"The tall buildings in the city centre have a heavy touch; the low-rise villas to the South create considerably gentler sounds. Akko Goldenbeld has a very personal way of looking at, or rather listening to the city. He has created a scale model of Eindhoven and assigned it the role of sound recorder; the buildings create a score. Placed on a revolving wooden cylinder the buildings set little hammers in motion that play the keys of a piano. And turning and turning, the city makes its voice heard: from loud to soft, long to short, high-pitched to low, traslating the urban developers'three dimensional reality into an aural experience. Stadsmuziek (City Music) makes you tune in to the ensemble-playing that is environemental planning. "

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[CopperDraggon]

What's the point in attching a piano to it if it sound shit?

[charlesdarwin321]

it would have been actually awesome if it made legitimate music

[xpez]

@CopperDraggon the comments about it sounding like shit...reveal the contempt people have for the things they cant comprehend...

The interesting thing about this work is that its amplifying the topography the city, aurally. It's sophisticated because it's using a different sense to "see" something... or rather it's transposing a landscape into individual notes on a piano

The cascading cacaphony of sound is like a rough drawing of a cityscape...

The sound is very similar to an urban setting...

[guitarunner]

AWESOME!!!!

and forget all yall who want to hear gaga played on it.

[ItsThatGuy8669]

Hipster and their music.

[SamLuca5]

Good idea, now go build a city with a good song as blueprints.

[link7927]

wtf is this shit?

i thouught it was guna play actual music

[SpahRoundHere]

Sounds like that wheel needs some WD40...

[Zarsoar]

was this a best idea-worst outcome contest? because they won