Monday, June 30, 2008

The David Byrne Building

Creative Time Presents Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne The Battery Maritime Building 10 South Street, New York, NY (Map) 31 May - 10 August 200



Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon - 6PM (Free) Playing the building is 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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