We’re all familiar with the usual panoply of instruments: plucked strings amplified by a guitar’s hollow wooden body, air oscillating in a flute’s cylindrical tube, metal bells resonating when struck. But there are surprising ways to make music utilizing unusual sources — the elements themselves: fire, water, the earth beneath our feet, and the air around us. [Read more →]
Last summer, Creative Time presented “Playing the Building,” a sound installation in Manhattan’s Battery Maritime Building by David Bryne in which the physical elements of the building were converted into a giant musical instrument. An organ was connected mechanically to the building structure — the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and by pressing the keys one could make these things vibrate, resonate or oscillate. [Read more →]
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