David Byrne–Playing the Building
Thanks to Clayton Littlejohn for forwarding a Crooked Timber post on one of my favorite bad-asses. David Byrne has a new installation in NYC in which he has hooked up an old organ so that it plays the building that houses it. Plays the building? Yep. Pressing keys, pulling knobs, and pushing peddles turns on machines that rap columns, blow air through water-pipes, and tap on radiators. There’s a description and a video on Byrne’s website.