David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve | Video on TED.com
Continuing on the subject of sound and music-- from my story about the kid with a tape, CD and record player-- I found this talk interesting. I think all of the TED talks are pretty cool, but as usual I have a soft spot for performance artists. I have had the great fortune of seeing David Byrne's piece, "Play the building" a couple years back in New York City. It and this talk can really get you into the way that he is working as a visual and sound artist. The basic discussion of the talk is that the architecture he has played in has caused his music to evolve; he is actually playing for the building. I find this particularly interesting in terms of what the Pulitzer is undergoing for the Ann Hamilton exhibition "stylus." The Ando concrete will resonate with sounds that come from a translated text. That method of getting text will come from multiple formats.
I can say in my experience of Byrne's work that I enjoyed getting my personal turn to literally play the building. This was a clever rigging of organ keys triggering crazy mechanisms to jingle a major column or to ting ting on one of the radiators. It was all an engineering masterpiece as well as an interesting concept.
It makes me wish to re investigate sound elements in my work. Previously I was intrigued to get textile related sounds (i.e. sewing machine engine running, knitting needles clicking, etc.) to turn into a clever mix of music.
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