david byrne

It's a month away but it's something to look forward to. David Byrne's Playing the Building will be installed in the Battery Maritime Building from May 31 - August 10. The piece "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 will be 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". This is a Creative Time project.


David Byrne
Playing the Building
Battery Maritime Building
11 South Street

May 31 - August 10

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