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Gigs & Festivals
David Byrne to play The Roundhouse
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 29 July 2009
When I say David Byrne is going to play The Roundhouse, I don’t mean he’s going to get up and strum a guitar a bit, I mean he’s actually going to play The Roundhouse as a musical instrument. No, I don’t really understand it either.
The former Talking Heads frontman has apparently devised a way to draw sound from the building by attaching various mechanical devices to its beams, pillars and pipes, which can then be channelled into a keyboard that can be played by visitors.
The ‘Playing The Building’ sound installation has already been staged at the Battery Maritime Building in New York and the Färgfabriken building in Stockholm. It comes to the Grade II listed London venue between 8-31 Aug.
