{"id":170,"date":"2008-06-10T17:54:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T21:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2008-06-10T17:54:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T21:54:04","slug":"playing-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/playing-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbyrne.com\/art\/art_projects\/playing_the_building\/index.php\"><strong>David Byrne&#8217;s<\/strong> website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Playing the Building<\/strong> 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 \u2014 to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes \u2014 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this video interview, David Byrne describes and demonstrates the installation (warning: short commercials)<br \/>\n<embed class='castfire_player' id='cf_1ce3b' name='cf_1ce3b' width='480' height='400' src='http:\/\/p.castfire.com\/Xu7m0\/video\/14431\/bbtv_2008-06-10-050504.flv' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' allowFullScreen='true'><\/embed><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbyrne.com\/art\/art_projects\/playing_the_building\/media\/bmbvideo.html\">Additional video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From David Byrne&#8217;s website: 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 \u2014 to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes \u2014 and are used to make these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}