David Byrne on BoingBoing TV
Musician David Byrne has a sound installation art project at the Battery Maritime Building called Playing the Building. According to his website, 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.
I can see why Xeni was so excited by this clip. I feel like I've stumbled upon extra footage from the 25th anniversary Blade Runner re-issue. I mean, hello, replicants, thank you for the music and underground metro tour!
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