a kind of mythic village...

Once the basic design—a kind of fanciful pagoda with schematic flourishes not unlike Leonardo’s inventions—was devised, dis­cussions with artists, musicians, architects, and suppliers yielded no end of possibilities and challenges. With a cast of contributing sound artists and inventors proposing a mind-boggling array of unusual or obscure technologies, the functioning of its instrumentation became a central focus, and it was soon evident that creating a series of smaller temporary musical shanties could provide an invaluable way of conducting field tests before embarking on the construction...http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag14/june_14/fullfeature.shtml