This month, Lower Manhattan's New Museum, a soundproof structure, will premiere the "chants of an imagined ancient lament" on the various floors of the building.
The production is supposed to transport modern-day New Yorkers back to ancient Assyria in the year 612 B.C.
Italian composer and artist Roberto Cuoghi, plans to sing Šuillakku Corral while playing myriad instruments including a ram's horn, African lute, coconut shells and an Indian elephant bell.
But it continues.
On another floor, ten strumming guitar troubadours will sit (or stand) on furniture to emulate the famous sex scene from a 1977 Icelandic cult film. Those performers are known as Ragnar Kjartansson's spatial music piece Take Me Here by the Dishwasher--Memorial for a Marriage.
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