The Music Box is an interactive art installation in New Orleans built in the shape of a rambling house, and composed of structures that double as musical instruments.
“Delaney Martin, its curator, calls it ‘a shantytown-sound laboratory,’ ” Campbell Robertson writes. “In more literal terms, it is a collection of tumbledown wooden and metal structures built on the site, and almost entirely from the remains, of a late-18th century Creole cottage that collapsed a couple of years ago on Piety Street.”
A musician plays a “bathtub bass” during a recent performance.
