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Reuters - David Byrne is hitting the road in the fall, but not with Brian Eno. ... Source: www.wired.com --- 23 days ago
In this video, David Byrne describes his latest project, "Playing The Building." By attaching a system of switches and machines to structures within the Battery Maritime Building in lower Manhattan, Byrne turns the building into a giant musical instrument. ... Source: blog.wired.com --- 28 days ago
Last month, the heads-up on the Talking Heads front man's newest experiment Playing the Building went viral like a worm. This month, it's video's turn, and Listening Post is getting in on the action with an exclusive tutorial from Byrne.... ... Source: online.wsj.com --- 6 days ago
The Talking Heads singer designs art-like bike racks for New York City. ... Source: newsroom.mtv.com --- 2 days ago
Not content with just working with Pharrell and Strokes singer Julian Casablancas in a Converse ad and opening for Coldplay on their current tour, Santogold has her sights set on some major collaborations in the future. The “Lights Out” singer recently revealed to NME that she’s working on “something with Jay-Z; it’s kind of secret,” [...] ... Source: www.npr.org --- 14 days ago
Talking Heads co-founder David Byrne has made New York's Battery Maritime Building sing — literally. The once-busy ferry terminal was fitted with wires, hoses and solenoids. This isn't Byrne's exercise in being arty. Anyone can play the building. ... Source: www.rollingstone.com --- 9 days ago
Earlier this year, former Talking Head David Byrne and super-producer Brian Eno revealed that the duo were working on a new album, with a tour planned for later this year. The first two dates of those shows, billed as “Songs of Talking Heads’ David Byrne and Roxy Music founder Brian Eno,” have popped up. The [...] ... Source: www.pitchforkmedia.com --- 8 days ago
America-- and indeed, the world-- is waiting for news of the previously hinted at David Byrne / Brian Eno tour, and now it appears we've finally got some. Though maybe not quite the news we were hoping for. The My Life in the Bush of Ghosts BFFs have slyly trickled word of three dates onto the interwebs thus far, each with some variation on the handle "Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno". The first hits Atlanta on September 20, and the third descends on Santa Barbara, California October 4 [via Brooklyn Vegan ]. As for the second? Why, it's Byrne's previously reported appearance at the Austin City Limits Festival , which now carries a "Songs of..." tag on the festival site. Sticklers for details, however, will note one pretty essential point of ambiguity at play here: despite a Ticketmaster listing slip-up that specifically mentions "with Brian Eno", Eno will not actually be playing any of these shows, according to a Billboard.com update on an erroneous previous report. Instead, it seems Byrne alone will roll through Ghosts jams and Eno-touched Talking Heads tracks at these gigs. And hey, that's still quite a treat. More Byrne dates are expected soon. As for that "electronic gospel" record Byrne and Eno are apparently working up for a release before the end of the year? Billboard.com points us to a "webdiary" entry from collaborator/session man Leo Abrahams , who indicates the album is currently being mixed. read more ...
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Former Talking Heads frontman and bicycling enthusiast, David Byrne, takes a ride out to Brooklyn to show off his latest project, designer bike racks. WSJ's Reed Albergotti reports. (July 18) ... Source: www.rocketboom.com --- 8 hours ago
David Byrne’s interactive art project Playing the Building at South Street Seaport in New York City. ... Source: www.ilikemusic.com --- 16 days ago
A number of session with some amazing and talented artists ... Source: www.artsjournal.com --- 13 days ago
Do-it-yourself public sound installations are serendipitous surprises: Former Talking Head David Byrne wired the Battery Maritime Building to emphasize its haunted house groans and creaks, and it's further improved by human agency. A few hundred yards away, chimes are planted amidst the shrubbery. Leap on them. "Playing the Building," an ingenious installation by the man who sang "Psycho Killer, qu'est qe c'est?", triggers whooshes, clanks, buzzes and such with the keys of an old organ which sits in the center of a large, high-ceilinged room of an otherwise empty old port structrure. It will be in place through August 24, open basically during business hours. When I attended on a rainy Saturday after "Playing the Building" had just been opened, a line of would-be Byrne collaborators was waiting to explore what the keyboard could make the room do. It could have taken half an hour or more to explore and connect particular keys and stop-settngs to the sounds they started, and no one had the moxie to command so much the time, so the result was everybody dabbled and nothing could be planned (or "composed"). I had a simple flute with me, though, and found that by playing discrete sounds that imitated the pitches the building was giving up, or its timbres or rhythmic clicks, I could make connections among the seemingly random blurts and warm the room up. I wasn't playing tunes and I wasn't playing loudly, just standing off to the side. The do ... Source: www.prefixmag.com --- 8 days ago
OK, here comes the old good news/bad news express. You may have already heard that David Byrne and Brian Eno ... ... Source: www.statesman.com --- 8 days ago
... Source: www.timeout.com --- 6 days ago
So David Byrne has hooked up an organ to play sounds that emanate from the girders, pipe and columns of the Battery Maritime Museum. Cool, right? But the truly genius part, as Byrne told us, is "It takes away any advantage that a trained musician has." And it’s true. The lightning-fast fingers of what must [...] ... Source: britneyspearshomevideo.com --- 7 days ago
According to a statement released Wednesday by Jive Records , Britney Spears is “spending her summer in the studio” to work on her follow-up to 2007’s Blackout . Spears is “working with a team of top notch producers and songwriters,” including Rodney Jerkins and Sean Garret . Jerkins told Rap Up TV , “I’m trying [...] ...
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There's an amazing art piece in Manhattan right now that allows anyone, free of charge, to "play" a building like you'd play a musical instrument. It's an audio installation conceived by David Byrne of Talking Heads and David Byrne fame and carried out by Creative Time and the City of New York. I happened to be in Manhattan recently and I got a chance to step up and play the building for myself. The experience was humbling to say the least. I found that my total lack of knowledge about the keys of a piano translated nicely to a poorly conducted symphony of random sounds. But more than that, I realized the limits of my own preconceptions of music. When I first enter the Battery Maritime Building just adjacent to Battery Park, I'm sent through an antechamber where I sign a release form absolving the city of any responsibility should the house actually be brought down by someone's playing. I hear the random clacking and humming of the building being played in the distance and as I walk up the stairs to the main room, the sounds grow in volume. As I can better discern what is going on, I start to understand that playing the building is not so much musical in the conventional sense. But it may just be as musical as a building can be. Entering the main room where the organ sits, the first thing I notice is how good the whole piece looks. It's not at all what I expected. Simple arcing lines cut through and bring life to a dirty, brown un ...