image via Octogon (Design and Architecture online from Budapest)
So here it happens, the siren of Architecture called, and I heeded.
Nay, I relinquished.
Architecture, that capricious muse, finally seeps in my art chamber- yet how could I have kept it at bay?
Architecture is, indeed, frozen music.
If this building was music, what song/genre would it be?
Sir Barry says that some architects of the Baroque era literally applied to their designs harmonic ratios learned from musical intervals and harmonic relations between notes.
I always thought Baroque was the music closest to the act of creating, to perfect mathematical equations, the music of the cosmos. Fractals’ music. Baroque and its clavichords is what I am listening to right now, as I finish a 3D digital model. The model dances and takes form. Digital sculpture.
You must pardon if I wax poetic. I just finished ‘Death in Venice’ and my heart is full of poetry tonight.
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on the verge of disagreeing: architecture not music, frozen or otherwise; but then after a protracted and painful death in venice everything is possible, i guess; architecture = too static to be musical; or is that too realistic; as to baroque: i wouldn’t mind smoking what they smoked, if you get the figure of speech; but: i’ll think about it; perhaps it is
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Francis, when i look at the photo above, I see a rhythm. As someone said, in response to Goethe’s quote ‘ Music is not melted architecture’, and this could prove your point:) Maybe the fact that some think arch. is frozen music may be dangerous, as in Gehry, some of his building are crazy music (!) . Futurist Architecture does not resonate -pardon the pun-with Futurist music, when I listen to the (reconstructed) recordings. I enjoy the philosophical debate nonetheless!
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rhythm probably not the same as music; anyway, after several hypertext conversations with those whose heads resound with music: frozen music = silence; oddly enough there seems to be a general opinion that music is more like boiling architecture – kinda like goethe; so: what is the melting point of architecture?
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