When former Talking Heads front man David Byrne isn’t busying biking around town, blogging or sitting in with Paul Simon he’s been hard at work on his lastest project – Playing The Building – a 9,000 square foot interactive site at the Battery Maritime Building near South Ferry in Lower Manhattan.

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Visitors to the installation are literally invited to “play on retrofitted antique organ, that vibrate, strike, and blow across the building’s elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds.” The Village Voice sat down with Byrne to discuss the unique project that will be open until mid-August.

Finally, when the compact disc first hit the market in late 1982 it quickly became the format of choice over the large, clunky vinyl record. Well let’s flash forward some 20+ years later. With CD sales plummeting more and more people are turning to the warmer and more inviting sound of vinyl. The format is having a big time resurgence, and it’s not just big among the hipster set anymore.