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The exhibit has ended May 31st – August 24, 2008 Playing the Building marks the first time in decades that the second floor of the Battery Maritime Building will be accessible to the public. The space will be open and free on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout the summer of 2008. Everyone is invited to sit at the organ, tap on the keys, and create a unique array of sounds that travel through the space. 
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. 
"David is most widely known as a musician, but he is an extraordinary writer, visual artist, and director who resists categorization, plays around with grey zones, and favors a life of broad creativity," says Anne Pasternak, curator of the exhibition and President and Artistic Director at Creative Time. Talks and Performances David Byrne and Creative Time will invite guest musicians to challenge the project through a series of performances. A schedule of performances and artists will be available by the end of May at www.creativetime.org/byrne |
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