Jan
26
David Byrne’s Roundhouse: In 2005, Talking Heads singer/songwriter David Byrne re-worked an out-of-tune analog pump-organ to manipulate the vibrations of the Färgfabriken, a, by succession, gun, farming combine and finally paint factory built in 1889 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2008, Byrne brought the idea to a 1909 Beaux Arts municipal ferry terminal, “Battery Maritime Building,” …
Jan
24
A running theme amongst the various sound installation performances is the broadening of awareness in music that surrounds us. Our daily routines are generally task-driven and our peripheral awareness for artistic expression is often deafened. Sound is more often associated in unspoken terms as being an asset or a liability in our information processing. Our …