I found this exhibition by accident after attending the Roundhouse Proms session one evening in August. David Byrne, the former frontman of the band Talking Heads, is now working on a sound installation known as the Roundhouse Instrument which "invites members of the public to play the building like an instrument". It was an eerie experience for me as every touch on the keyboard reverberates around the whole building, making for quite an empowering feeling.
"Everything from the building's metal beams to its water pipes will become a component of the resonating, vibrating, oscillating noise-maker. Members of the public will be able to move through the Roundhouse and activate the space in different ways – primarily through a special keyboard that turns pipes into flutes and walls into drums."
Before now I have not appreciated this form of art as I felt it could be described as an empty nothing of arranged objects, with no use or purpose. However I feel that participation in creating your own form of installation can be very rewarding and engaging.
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