No Window No Cry (Le Corbusier, Maison-atelier Lipschitz, Boulogne), 2011 (left)

Music box, glass, wooden window frame

No Window No Cry is a series of miniature brass music box cylinders enclosed in a sheet of glass. Hollowed at the center with a small concave area where the wind-up handle is located, the music box can be wound up and played. 

Le Clash, 2010 (center)

HD video projection, Dolby Digital 5.1

Duration 08:31 min

In this work, performers play renditions of the song Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash through a barrel organ and a music box outside a derelict concert hall in Bordeaux.

Score, 2011 (detail; right)

Score of Le Clash, 2010, for barrel organ, carved into wall

Photo © Sylvain Deleu