One of music’s most experimental bands is offering fans a new way to experience its music online.
This morning, Brooklyn-via-Baltimore indie oddballs Animal Collective launched Transverse Temporal Gyrus, an interactive website built to commemorate a 2010 art installation the band put on at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum with video artist Danny Perez.
“That night Danny designed an immersive visual environment for people to hear a sound installation made of brand-new songs and sounds we composed for the event,” the three members of Animal Collective wrote on the site’s homepage.
“Over the course of a three hour period, a computer program designed by Stephan Moore deconstructed our sounds, randomly recombined their stems into new pieces, and panned the new pieces through a 36 channel surround sound system we installed on the museum lobby’s spiral ramp.”
Unlike Arcade Fire’s eerily nostalgic “The Wilderness Downtown” site, which had fans simply type in their home address before the popular Canadian indie rock band led them on an interactive trip through the woods and back home to the tune of their 2010 hit “We Used to Wait,” traversing Transverse Temporal Gyrus is no easy task. But such complexity should be expected from such an intricately arranged band like Animal Collective.
A good basic rule of thumb to consider while navigating the site: Follow the bright, blinking lights. Clicking on each one will lead you to a different video from the installation’s performance.
Photo via Animal Collective
