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Commissioned Work: Recent Work: The Music Box

New Orleans, LA - Quintron (center) is a local musician who served as the Conductor for the Shantytown Orchestra. His attendants Caitlin Cowlen (18, left) and Erin Wilson (25, right) served as the main hosts and ushers for the evening. The Music Box, a 'shantytown sound laboratory', is a musical house built from found materials that serves as a prelude to the building of 'Dithyrambalina', an interactive sculpture in the form of a three-story house. Co-curated by the Brooklyn-based street artist Swoon, The Music Box is a platform for collaborating artists to develop the instrumentation that will eventually be built into the Dithyrambalina's walls, ceilings, and floorboards.

The Music Box - for The New York Times The Music Box, a 'shantytown sound laboratory', is a musical house built from found materials that serves as a prelude to the building of 'Dithyrambalina', an interactive sculpture in the form of a three-story house. Co-curated by the Brooklyn-based street artist Swoon, The Music Box is a platform for collaborating artists to develop the instrumentation that will eventually be built into the Dithyrambalina's walls, ceilings, and floorboards. Campbell Robertson wrote a great piece describing the performance we attended called A Symphony of Floorboards, Pipes, and Stairs, and some of the following pictures accompany his story on the New York Times website in a slideshow titled House Music in New Orleans. I went back to photograph the third and final performance at the Music Box at the invitation of New Orleans Airlift, the organization that made the whole project possible.