"Playing the Building" Exhibition
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At Battery Maritime Building
Media: Architecture, Installation
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.
Schedule
From 2008-05-31 To 2008-08-10
Artist(s)
Website
http://www.batterymaritimebuilding.com/ (venue's website)
Fee
Free
Venue Hours
Maps
Access
By FDR Drive. Subway: 1 to South Ferry, R/W to Whitehall Street,4/5 to Bowling Green.
Address
10 S St., New York, NY 10004
Community around this event
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Reviews
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/
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"Playing the Building" Exhibition</a>
Venue: Battery Maritime Building
Schedule: From 2008-05-31 To 2008-08-10
Address: 10 S St., New York, NY 10004
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