{"id":347,"date":"2009-02-15T15:04:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T00:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=347"},"modified":"2011-12-17T11:59:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T20:59:01","slug":"play-the-building-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Play The Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starosta.com\/mf3d\/play_bldg_109_MFT72_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbyrne.com\/art\/art_projects\/playing_the_building\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">David Byrne<\/a> rigged up this industrial space in NYC with numerous actuators &#8211; hammers, motors and similar vibration inducing devices &#8211; attached to columns, radiators, roof trusses, etc. Visitors to the installation can sit down at the old organ keyboard, where from they &#8220;play the building&#8221;. The music\/sounds thus created, in combination with the space are very mesmerizing. I was there on two occasions. Once nearly empty (I got to play!), the second time with Spud, very crowded. The effect was different each time, interesting both times.<\/p>\n<p>Above: Fuji RXP, f11 (?), 1-2 sec. exposure in available light, using Sputnik, 80mm lenses.<a href=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-355\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001055-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"scan001055\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001055-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001055-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001055.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is the original slide shot in summer of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The organ was modified to send signals via electric or pneumatic lines to the various actuators. The music was essentially percussive: lots of clinks and clanks. Only the electric motors near the ceiling, in the trusswork under the skylight, produced &#8220;tone&#8221; &#8211; a dark, rumbling, droning tone.<\/p>\n<p>Right: Fuji RXP, f11 (?), 1\/8 sec.\u00a0 Exposure in available light, using Sputnik, 80mm lenses.  This is the original slide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Byrne rigged up this industrial space in NYC with numerous actuators &#8211; hammers, motors and similar vibration inducing devices &#8211; attached to columns, radiators, roof trusses, etc. Visitors to the installation can sit down at the old organ keyboard, where from they &#8220;play the building&#8221;. The music\/sounds thus created, in combination with the space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[256,47,133,134,128],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a21","tag-architecture","tag-boris-starosta","tag-david-byrne","tag-event","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}