Photos by New-Orleans-based photographer Adelyn Eiler
The Music Box Village in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a one-of-a-kind sculpture garden, where each house is a musical instrument. It was born in 2010, five years after Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath devastated the city of New Orleans, when a collapsing Creole cottage on Piety Street in the Bywater inspired an experiment in ‘musical architecture.’ The result was a permanent exhibit of interactive musical houses built from recycled materials and found objects, inspired by the city’s under-celebrated tinkerers, inventors, and avant-garde musicians: a stage for musicians to play their instruments upon, but also an instrument in itself.
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With more than 16 houses to date, the outdoor sonic sculpture garden is both an interactive art-site and a performance platform for one-of-a-kind concerts, artist residencies, and interdisciplinary works. Its schedule of concerts has ranged from performances from pop musicians to family events to an opera about bees’ succession rituals to crown a new queen.
- Read: Interview with cellist-turned-photographer Charles Brooks
- Read: Profile of Turner-prize winner Susan Philipsz and her sound works
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See below for a gallery of recent photos of the Music Box Village by the New-Orleans-based photographer Adelyn Eiler.
Amongst the upcoming events at Music Box Village is the Blue House Music Family Concert on February 23rd and the Illuminated Rhythms Masquerade Ball on February 25th. 
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