Since the Talking Heads disbanded, David Byrne has taken quite a circuitous route. Along the way there have been film scores, dance and opera projects, visual art, and more recently a memoir about riding his bike through the world’s cities.

His latest project: hooking up an old organ to the guts of an old building and asking you to play it. The full blog post is at the NEW YORK TIMES.

Organizers of the Short Circuit festival originally targeted well-known electronic musicians/composers like Vangelis, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, but its organizers opted instead for a more diverse, exhaustive, obscure lineup that may be household names to the devoted but will provide an impressive history lesson in electronic arts for the less electronically-inclined.

A slew of multimedia artists from Barcelona’s 2009 avant-garde electronic music/media arts festival Sonar – including a robot orchestra operated with a midi controller – will perform on Friday, May 15.

The full blog post at the NEW YORK TIMES