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'Talking Head' Byrne makes sculpture

Artists including former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne have created a massive sound sculpture.The sculpture in Manhattan, New York takes up an entire building and is definitely one for the music buff.Byrne said: "In a big old industrial space like this as there are all over Europe and all over the world there are all these different parts making different sounds.He added: "If you knock 'em around in your hands...they are just sound producing things so it seemed obvious to me you could organise that a bit."Visitors use an antique organ to 'play' the 9,000 square foot building.The organ is attached to the metal features of the building and plumbing which creates the sounds.Byrne's band shot to fame in the late 1970s and 1980s with such hits as Psycho Killer, Burning Down The House, And She Was, Road To Nowhere and Stop Making Sense.

ITN | June 3, 2008Watch more videos from ITN

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