Photograph by Justin Ouellette, 2008. Courtesy Creative TIme

Creative Time Presents: David Byrne Playing the Building
The Battery Maritime Building - New York
Event: 5/31/08 - 8/24/08
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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.

Photographs by Sam Horine, 2008. Courtesy Creative Time.

On Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays,
Time : NOON-6PM
Location : 10 South Street, New York, NY

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For more on the project: http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/art_projects/playing_the_building/

Photograph by Sam Horine, 2008. Courtesy Creative Time.

via EM Staff, 9 July 2008 6:14pm | |