David Byrne is about to turn the Battery Maritime Building in New York City into a musical instrument.
The building, at 10 South St in Manhattan, has had devices added to the structure such as heating pipes, water pipes and pillars, to produce sounds. They can be activated by wind, vibration and striking.The devices cause the building elements to vibrate and the building becomes a giant musical instrument.
"A few years ago I was invited to do an exhibition at a place called Färgfabriken in Stockholm, a Kunsthalle in a former factory," Byrne says at his website. "I went and looked at the space and later made a menu of proposals that ranged from conventional stuff on walls to a giant microwave oven to a facial recognition software piece to the project that got presented, Playing the Building".
The exhibition will run from May 31 to August 10.
