Some further reading, if it's of interest: A book titled Temperament, by
Stuart Isacoff, includes some practical information on ideas that relate
music and architecture, especially the way that certain mathematical
proportions that became standard in buildings (notably in churches) are
also inherent in Western music. Much of this he traces back to St.
Augustine, who laid down some tenets of church construction. Isacoff
explains the math in pretty easily digestible terms. Fortunately, the story
is about more than just Golden Mean-style numerical ratios; as someone
noted on this thread already, ultimately a lot of this music-architecture
stuff has to do with "structure." On that tip, Isacoff cites Leonardo da
Vinci's lovely description of music: "the shaping of the invisible."
Regarding Daniel Libeskind, when I was in San Francisco a few months back
there were a bunch of his abstract architectural drawings on display at the
SFMOMA, so if you're in SF and find what Greg Smith just wrote about
Libeskind interesting (I sure did), you can check them out in person.
Oh, another book: Getting back to not just music but to, more specifically,
electronic music's relationship with architecture, Marc Treib (who used to
be at SFMOMA) put together a book about composer Edgar Varese's
collaboration with Le Corbusier on a structure called the Philips Pavilion,
which yielded one of Varese's most referenced compositions: Poeme electronique.
Marc
> The question is as simple or as difficult as you want to make it?
>
> How do you relate Music and Architecture?
>
Marc Weidenbaum
www.disquiet.com
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