I have a few more Governor's Island photos to show, but I think I'll show those next week. Today I felt like showing a picture I took at an exhibit called "Playing the Building" by the artist and musician David Byrne, which is at the Battery Maritime Terminal this summer. It was very cool and I can't describe it very well so here is a description excerpted from his website http://www.davidbyrne.com/.
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 produce sound.
So if you visit the installation, you can even take a turn playing the building yourself. (It's operated by that console you see. Very cool!) Have a nice weekend everyone.
6 comments:
David Byrne a toujours été un musicien et un artiste très inventif, il a toujours essaye de nouvelle chose. j'aime ce concept , cela devait être superbe. Bon Weekend.
David Byrne has always been a musician and an artist very inventive, he has always trying new things. I like this concept, it should be superb. Good Weekend
Did you get to see David Byrne actually perform? Interesting set-up & exhibit.
How cool! That sounds like a lot of fun.
Very cool. Brings a whole new meaning to a music room! Enjoy your weekend too :)
Blue Wave, no, unfortunately I didn't get to see David Byrne perform. That would have been cool! This was just an exhibition he had designed.
Sounds like an awesome exhibit! I would've loved to have been there.
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