Musical masonry?

David Byrne

Ex-Talking Heads front man David Byrne plans to turn a landmark Manhattan building into a giant musical instrument. The US state of New York says Byrne will create a temporary installation called Playing the Building in the Great Hall of the Battery Maritime Building.

Devices will be attached to ceiling beams, plumbing, electrical conduits and other parts of the structure. Sound will be produced through vibration. Officials said the installation would open in late May, along with a new passenger waiting room at the adjacent Whitehall Ferry Terminal.

Byrne has forged a solo career as a musician and visual artist since the new wave band Talking Heads stopped making records in the 1980s.