If these walls could talk
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 05:07PM 
Leave it to experiential designer and composer Sebastien Leon Agneessens to figure out how to make a residential building come alive with sound.
Three sonic sculptures that were presented at 100% Design in London, offered a lyrical first-look at the much larger architectural artwork that it anticipates with the opening of the NEF 163 residential tower in 2012. The Golden Horns, a title that conflates the musical instrument with Istanbul’s immortal harbor, comprise a series of brass pipes that will transform the building’s infrastructure and weave in and out of its 35 floors, carrying improvised compositions - a mixture of treated live sounds and prerecorded musical samples - from the building’s lobby to the observatory at its crown.
Inspired by the colorful pipes that dressed Renzo Piano’s Paris Pompidou Museum, Sebastien conceived a design that would use the tower’s piping structure as a musical instrument that would continually deliver subtle music and sonic poetry to its residents.
It makes regular apartment buildings feel rather run-of-the-mill doesn’t it?
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