As part of the larger Erben Renewal project, there will be an Exhibition of the instrument. Henry Erben was reknown in New York for the Exhibitions he held of his recent organ installations. These exhibitions were attended by thousands, featured the city's best musicians, and lasted for days. This Exhibition will be used to educate people about this organ and its importance then and now.

However, this Exhibition is not to last more than an hour, so that people remain engaged. The idea is that the organ is not just the pipes that you see on the facade, but the thousands of pipes inside connected by a universe of early industrial revolution technology. To start, I will invite the audience to come up to the choir loft to view the inside of the organ and the console.

In most organ recitals, the audience is unable to see the organist, let alone what is going on inside the organ; the audience usually faces an altar or choir screen, not the performer. This makes for an unsatisfying experience, except for those already initiated. For the Exhibition, cameras will be mounted inside the organ case, and the images projected down to screens near the front of the nave. This way, as the organ is played, the audience may see the mechnical bits of the organ move. Additionally, through the use of a Max/MSP Jitter patch, images from the early days of film and photography will be mixed into the live video feeds.

The National Organ Archive in Princeton contains two programs from St. Patrick's Old Cathedral; one from 1852 and one from 1869. Some of the pieces played at the Exhibition will be from these Exhibitions. It should give some sense of what one would typically hear on such an instrument.