David Byrne's "Playing The Building" at the Roundhouse in Camden, London.

Utilizing wind-pipes that force air through electrical conduits, oscillating motors attached to the metal crossbeams causing them to vibrate, and mechanical solenoids that clang and ping on the hollow metal columns -- and connecting them all to a simple church organ set in the centre of the space, visitors can literally "play the building". David Byrne states that "it would emphasize the Victorian steam-punk technology at work." Quite an experience, to say the least ...

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