P2P | 30 January 2024 | 426.16 MB
In 2011, a collapsing Creole cottage on Piety Street in the Bywater became the catalyst for a grand experiment in "musical architecture.” Founding artists Delaney Martin, Taylor Lee Shephard, Swoon and owner of the house, Jay Pennington, imagined the wreckage could be reimagined as a playground, theatre, musical instrument and, in general, a space for community music making. With 20+ other local artists, they brought the cottage back to life as a landscape of collectively-built sonic structures that make sounds in surprising ways - by walking on floorboards, opening sliding doors, or playing columns made of chimes. Thus began an evolving project that would be known as the Music Box.