On Thursday, March 4th, Animal Collective and Danny Perez transformed the museum’s rotunda into a kinetic, psychedelic environment . The piece, Transverse Temporal Gyrus, featured original recorded music composed specifically for the event along with video projections, costumes, and props. The band members and performers were transformed into tricked-out, visual abstractions and guests were encouraged to meander around amidst processed jungle-like noises and imbibe in Absinthe.

About the show, Animal Collective explains to the Guggenheim: “As New Yorkers we are all familiar with the everyday noise around us—the car alarms, the subway trains braking, the music in bars—so familiar that sometimes we drown them out. But then do we not realize how these sounds are affecting us? How they make us feel or act? With this in mind we wanted to create an environment where people could take some time to listen to other kinds of sounds and get away from those familiar sounds of the city. Keeping in mind the birds of the jungle, we’ve created an array of sounds with Animal Collective's music that is seemingly random...or is it?” Hmm...

Photos by Anthony Cuellar, via tlc-blog.

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