[idm] RE: How do you relate Music and Architecture?
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quoted 10 lines The question is as simple or as difficult as you want to make it?> The question is as simple or as difficult as you want to make it?
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> How do you relate Music and Architecture?
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> This is an area of serious interest and I have been doing a lot of writing
> and now it is time to get you people's thoughts on this subject. I am
> purposefully leaving it very open for interpretation because I think these 2
> subjects can best be related interpretively for sake of ocnversation via
> internet, nor am I looking for anything specifically from you, but rather
> exploring the notion of people's first reactions to this relationship.
My first reaction is to relate it to the work going on at the moment
in 'multi-modality', which looks at tie-ups and crossovers between
different modes. In a sense then I'm relating it to work done on
relating such things, which may well not be what is being looked for,
in which case read no further.
Much of this is driven by people working in Linguistics/Semiotics, so if you
have the stomach for it (mine has turned on many an occasion), I'd suggest
looking at stuff like 'Speech, Music, Sound' by Theo van Leeuwen, 'The Language
of Displayed Art' by Michael O'Toole, and 'The Grammar of Visual Design' by
Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen. These do not specifically deal with the
architecture-music interface, but might provide some of the
conceptual/analytical tools that could be applied to it.
Academic banter over...
On a less seminar-roomy note, what strikes me when I hear the notion of
relating music and architecture is: 'sound design'
alan/beyond...sound
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