Ever look around at the frenzied construction of Bloomberg-era New York City and wonder how to turn it into art? On November 18th at Studio-X, multimedia artist Daniel Perlin will do just that, and in a novel way: using screws, glue, nails, sawhorses, an audio cassette and a laptop to question work and construction as auditory processes. In his performance “re:construction,” he will ask: What do buildings sound like? How do structures house the process of their construction?

At Studio-X (fittingly, a downtown annex of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, located just blocks away from Donald Trump’s new and looming Soho tower), Perlin will build a small house over the course of one hour. Recording and manipulating samples from the construction process, he will simultaneously build a large orchestral work with rhythm, melody and harmony to be recorded onto a cassette tape in real-time. According to Studio-X, this cassette will then be housed within this new structure “as an artifact built to highlight process, and to archive the sounds of its own creation.”

Who: DANIEL PERLIN
What: re:construction
When: Tuesday, November 18, 7 pm
Where: Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610
1 train to Houston
RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu.