As I witnessed the droning sounds of Tarek Atoui's hybrid sculpture performance Organ Within at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, I noticed a family of four -- two young parents with two young children -- sitting quietly on the floor pillows of the rotunda.
The younger child, no older than two or three years old, was preternaturally calm and focused in his mother's lap. He looked on, captivated and mesmerized, as the musicians walked from station to station. The performers adjusted metal tubes, scattered balls, and bells onto a thin vibrating membrane, and reached inside different compartments of the modular instrument.
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