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Visiting scholar Wasalu Jaco — a.k.a. Lupe Fiasco — has put together an album of sorts, GHOTIING MIT, all songs inspired by MIT campus art, incorporating on-site field recordings, and produced over his recent years here. One song, “Sailing Flavor”, is about the 33-ton Alexander Calder sculpture positioned outside Building 14, where CMS/W hosts its headquarters. As ambience, it incorporates the voice of a tour guide telling campus visitors the legend of the statue’s courtyard placement:
The wind tunnel problem is that they built this triangle sculpture thing, and so they thought that this triangle sculpture thing would block all the wind. And so there would not be any problems anymore. Some students pretty skeptical about this because they were like, this is a little too far away from the building to actually work properly. So they actually built a mini model of it, and they put it into the wind tunnel on campus. And they found that indeed it does absolutely nothing, but it’s still here, and it’s a pretty little triangle sculpture.
