Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Reynolds ◽  
Karen Reynolds
Author(s):  
Michael Yonan

In the minds of many, the word “baroque” calls to mind one thing: ornamentation, and particularly, to modern viewers, what seems like a generous employment of ornamentation in the Baroque era’s art, architecture, and music. Exactly why seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe embraced decoration so eagerly has been difficult to explain. This is particularly true in the modern era, when prevailing aesthetic discourses worked to villainize ornament as unnecessary, wasteful, or degenerate. This chapter examines the role of ornament in baroque art, architecture, and music in order to understand the function it played in each. To achieve this, the chapter concentrates on two areas: ornamented interiors, particularly ecclesiastical ones, and the ornamented musical lines of vocal compositions. Baroque ornament emerges a site of communication and psychic expansion.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (21) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Gizem ÖZKAN ÜSTÜN ◽  
Pınar DİNÇ KALAYCI

Aim: The aim of this research is to identify the Novak’s relationship of ‘liquid architecture and music’ as an approach that diverges from the architecture music relationships that have been built throughout the historical process. Method: In describing the approach, initially, the intellectual and critical foundations and features of liquid architecture were emphasized, and subsequently, its relationship with music was discussed through case studies in comparison to the current relationship between architecture and music. Results: When the current relationships of the architecture and music are evaluated, the attitude apart from the arising sensations and affections doesn’t exist within the relationship of liquid architecture and music. Liquid architecture, which has characteristics such as continuity, timelessness, plurality, poetry and obscurity, acquires the characteristics of the individual varying based on his/her body, senses, perceptions, and emotions as the way of producing architecture. It is claimed that the liquidity approach will influence music and architecture in different ways than is known, and that music will transform into a new form of architecture, while architecture becoming a new form of music. In this context, it extends ‘beyond (trans-)’ the limits of current approaches. Conclusion: The sixth category of methodical approaches in architecture music interaction can be defined as the relationship of liquid architecture and music. The way it relates to music and the way it produces architecture also suggests a direction of development to concrete architecture and virtually warns about renewing its theory and tools.


Author(s):  
Victor Terras

Aesthetics as a branch of philosophy, or in the sense of an explicitly stated theory of art, appeared in Russia no earlier than the seventeenth century, under the direct influence of Western thought. It developed in connection with the adoption of European art forms. Russian contributions in terms of original styles in all forms of art, as well as of certain aesthetic notions which may be credited to Russia, came in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and must be understood in context with European art and aesthetic thought. Russian art, music and literature, as well as the aesthetic notions guiding them, get their Russianness from the political and social background, a major factor in literature, and from a carrying over of traits found in Russian folk art, folk music and folklore, as well as in religious texts, iconography, architecture and music, whose Orthodox version is sharply distinct from their equivalents in the Roman Catholic West.


1990 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Olof Götestam

Sex differences are presented for the students of architecture and music, and the distribution of sex in the tested sample and the population is discussed. The results are related to other studies in Scandinavia, which give comparable results. A genetic/cultural model is used to discuss the differences between results from Scandinavia, USA, and other parts of the world.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beau Sievers ◽  
Caitlyn Lee ◽  
William Haslett ◽  
Thalia Wheatley

People express emotion using their voice, face and movement, as well as through abstract forms as in art, architecture and music. The structure of these expressions often seems intuitively linked to its meaning: e.g., romantic poetry is written in flowery curlicues, while the logos of death metal bands use spiky script. Here we show that these associations are universally understood because they are signaled using a multi-sensory code for emotional arousal. Specifically, variation in the central tendency of the frequency spectrum of a stimulus—its spectral centroid—is used by signal senders to express emotional arousal, and by signal receivers to make emotional arousal judgments. We show that this code is used across sounds, shapes, speech, and human body movements, providing a strong multi-sensory signal that can be used to efficiently estimate an agent’s level of emotional arousal.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Biljana Srećković

This paper is devoted to perceiving the relationship between music and architecture, namely, the discourses which interpret, research, value these two practices in the context of their mutual networking. In that respect it is possible to set aside several problem strongholds which will make the focus of this paper, and which concern: the history of forming and evolution of discourse on the inter-relationship of these two practices; modernist, avant-garde and postmodernist problematization of music and architecture; theories of the artists as a field of music and architecture networking; the interaction of music and architecture on the technical and formal level; spatiality of sound, i.e., sound/music propagation in space and the emergence of the new art concepts based on this principle (sound architecture, aural architecture, sound art).


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