please play

These images are from David Byrne's installation play the building.  I love old buildings by the water. Byrne built his organ to play the materials of the building as 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. There 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 enjoyed the sound but found  the surfaces of the building as wonderful visual departure points.

Shadows become lines

White painted broken glass inspires clay shards