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Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by renowned artist David Byrne. The artist transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.” The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building's cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features—metal beams, plumbing, electrical conduits, and heating and water pipes. These machines vibrate, strike, and blow across the building’s elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds.
Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive,... more
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David Byrne has taken a ferry terminal and transformed it into a huge musical instrument by attaching devices to the building's pillars and pipes. "Playing the Building" will be at the Battery Maritime building in New York City through August 10th.David Byrne has taken a ferry terminal and transformed it into a huge musical... more
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New Yorkers would pay very good money to silence the daily New York Symphony, sounds composed and performed by the urban din of garbage trucks, car speakers, bus brakes, warped manhole covers, knocking radiators, people yelping down from high windows and the racket of numerous blaring television sets.
But just leave it up to the goofy David Byrne, an avant-garde artist and musician, to create a huge sound installation in New York City that makes such "music" on purpose, although many wouldn't call it music at all!!
David Byrne’s "Playing the Building" is a sound installation in which the infrastructure of New York's Maritime Building has been converted into a giant musical instrument: a gargantuan cast-iron orchestra.
Photographs and two videos of the "Playing the Building" sound installation are included.New Yorkers would pay very good money to silence the daily New York Symphony, sounds... more
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