Oh, that David Byrne! You just never know what this wacky guy is gonna do next! Will he hop on stage with yuppie icon Paul Simon? Sure! Will he record a new album with Brian Eno? You bet! What's next, you ask? Well, I don't know, maybe he could even use an entire building as an instrument, in some kind of crazy installation! He is David Byrne, after all!

In fact, that is exactly what that talkingest of all heads is going to do, in a project entitled Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne.

From Byrne's website:

Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.

This ambitious project will be housed in The Battery Maritime Building (10 South Street) and will run on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (12-6pm) from May 31 through August 10. Admission is free. An opening reception is scheduled for the 31st, 6-8pm. One assumes that Byrne will be present for this, but if you're itching to see him sooner, you can always check out Sunday's screening of True Stories at BAM.