29 Comments on David Byrne’s ‘Playing the Building’
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wow first comments… anyways guess it kind-of interesting, sound like it would be good background music for a horror or mystery…
second comment 0.0
i didnt get any of that
Definitely different; I wonder how long it took to set that all up.
I SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO wanna hear them play Sam Cooke’s Chain Gang!!! My life would be complete! Can I make requests for them to play it?
sweet
Go over there and make it happen! Ya could ya know!
ART - Sorta like a massive installation of this kBANG for the gameboy
Thats what I’m talkin’ ’bout!
First!
Interesting.
But forgive me if it strikes me as contrived. Plain old buildings in New York make so much noise, all on their own, that doing an installation on one so you can “play” it seems, I dunno, kind of artificial.
If it’s human created noice you want: You can stand on any corner in Manhattan or the Bronx, and in many parts of Brooklyn and Queens, and hear literally hundreds of sounds at once. Sometimes when I’ve been stuck in traffic I have oepend the windows and just let the sound wash over me. It feels like home.
(Let’s not discuss Staten Island.)
Thanks for saving me some typing Leron! Yes, it’s interesting, and eerie. I would give every entrant a spoon and let them bang away to their hearts content - and let them keep the spoon as a souvenir! Was this self- or auto-financed or did he skim from the $55M waterfall budget?
I like art not so much for the presentation but for the conversations it provokes - like in here. It is or it isn’t - there is no right or wrong - you like it or you don’t.
isn’t anyone going to sing “SAME AS IT EVER WAS, SAME AS IT EVER WAS”, lol
I guess if we are going to define art or not, it is conversation just for the sake of it - but why not? NYC and other European cities (and USA also) spend quite a few bucks on happenings which might not be considered classical art. i.e Cristo (sp) the artist who draped Central Park in red orange banners a few years ago. Generally I like these massive art occurrences.
I lived for many years in Greenwich Village (along University Place) which had 2 or 3 times a year an “artist” sidewalk display/sale. Irrespective of the inconvenience for us (blocking of sidewalk and the crowds) most of the art was pure crap - we called it “Fart” which fits quite appropriately. (We called the artists themselves - Fartists.
I don’t mind money being spent for city installations.
What I found weird about today’s video walk - is this the David Bryne of Talking Head fame? Golly but then again if you are a musician then anything goes - buildings or rhythm boxes or just cardboard and a stick. (Joanne understands)
(FArt? -!!! hehe -love that!)
Too bad they couldn’t get the guys from Orbital in there on that keyboard.
That would’ve been less FArty.
I’d rather listen to singing sand dunes. Mother Nature’s installation.
That sounds nice to me also - how about whale music? BTW have you heard/listened of/to John Cage or 20th Century dodecaphonic music?
Not into John Cage, even though I agree with his philosophy of sound.
Creepy.
This is not my beautiful house!
whos on first?
Fighting fire with fire…
What time what?
i went here. it was amazing. some guy sat down and started playing an actual song but it ended up sounding creepy yet amazing.
where iz it?
Very cool - but then I am down here in Memphis where we don’t really know good art except in the form of Elvis on velvet.
amazingly relaxing…
love out of the box thinking. :)
yes it is relaxing…
nyc on the South Street Seaport in New York City.
this very much reminds me of the soundtrack to David Lynch’s film “Eraserhead”