i played a building

Posted by Huong on August 16, 2008 at 10:37 pm.

The Battery Maritime Building, to be specific.

Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne (of Talking Heads)

“Creative Time presents Playing the building, a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.”

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