"Playing the Building" Exhibition
Battery Maritime Building
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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.
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from May 31, 2008 to August 10, 2008
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Maritime Music at the End of an Island: David Byrne's "Playing the Building"
Byrne mines the rusty hull of the Maritime building for far-flung sounds just as he once explored the Amazon and Sahara for beats and hooks in his days as front man for the Talking Heads.
The Art Collectors covers David Byrne, Playing The Building. full article here:
http://blog.theartcollectors.com/2008/07/05/nycdavid-byrne-playing-the-building/