dance-tech.net presents: Playing The Building: An Installation by David Byrne

I visited today, in the south tip of Manhattan an interesting public art project: "Playing The Building: An Installation by David Byrne". From the 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. http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/art_projects/playing_the_building/index.php Production Team 2008: Production Manager: Mark McNamara; Systems Engineer & Head of Fabrication: Justin Downs; Fabrication: Brett van Aalsburg, Eric Singer; Crew: Nick Emmett, Eric Dyer Cool detail: Within the visitors this afternoon, there were the architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio from Diller Scofidio + Renfro, creators of the Blur Building and the stage design of the piece Moving Target. http://www.dillerscofidio.com/moving-target.html

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dance-tech.net presents: Playing The Building: An Installation by David Byrne

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