buildings (frozen music) will be temporary like concerts

"The ancients and our modern quantum physicists are in agreement; everything in the universe is in a state of vibration which means they are in motion and all objects in motion create sound. This includes every portion of the human body." - Jonathan Goldman psychoacoustics teacher and musician, "The Sound of Science," Common Ground magazine, May 2007

"Now, the need for BEING SPACES is nothing new. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined 'The Third Place' in his 1990 book 'The Great Good Place', and described it as a celebration of the places where people can regularly go to take it easy and commune with friends, neighbours, and whoever else shows up." - Trendwatching March '06 report: Being Spaces & Brand Spaces

I read this in the book, Darkness and Scattered Light, and thought of you, fellow bards and druids. And I thought too of what I imagine a clan of artists would move through the cosmos like:

"The architecture of the future, I imagine, will be modeled on the architecture of matter itself, seen not in its aggregate nature as plastic material to be molded into shape, but in its musical structure as a crystal or as an archetypal geometrical form. The acoustical space of the ancient pyramids, cathedrals, and mosques is a celebration of sacred geometry....

What the future cathedrals of Chartres will be, I have no way of knowing, but I imagine someone playing a musical instrument and expressing with it certain images in algebra and topology; as the instrument is played, the physical form of the building is created. Perhaps my fantasy is simply one of a Bach-like God sitting at the keyboard of the universe, but I imagine a future architecture in which you turn on a building the way we now turn on the lights. These buildings will be temporary like concerts, and not enduring like the pyramids; and so when the use of the building is finished, the people can move on. The culture will be similar to the nomadic way of life of the old paleolithic hunters and gatherers; the people will carry their cultures in their souls, and so familiar will they be with earth, wind, and stars that civilization will be unnecessary ."

Art: Aerie © 2007 Timothy Lantz; Eurydice © 2007 Timothy Lantz

p.s. Feeling more in a curatorial and twittering mood of late. (And should you connect dots of Popup plus Being Spaces plus (Still) Made Here reports sans the commerce you may ascertain some parts of what been concocting lately.)

Comments

[Atao]

That makes me think about tools. Tools everywhere in the civilization. How do we create without tools?

[vaspers aka steven e. streight]

Avant garde composer Iannis Xenakis was a pioneer in mathematical music composing, algorhythmic patterns.

Stochastic is the term he used for the algebraic "chaos" of rain pattering on a tin roof, the seemingly random, yet oddly structured music of crickets, cicadas, frogs, other natural phenomena.

Xenakis was also a pioneer of noise music and modern architecture.

[andrew inglis]

Your thoughts on architecture remind me of the studies of John James on Chartres Cathedral (all angles and planes?),and others noting that any given architecture often directly reflects musical structures of the originating culture by way of selection of certain vibrations (or resonances) for specific frequencies). I once had an acquaintance with someone very gifted (2 Ph'D's) who both understood and wrote theoretical music for avant garde electronica, whilst understanding polyphonic splendour of traditional (non western)music sources. Of course there is all the wonder of the harmonia musica and the cosmological beliefs of the music of the heavenly spheres which (wrongly) led poor old Kepler on the long path to discovering ellipses and other intrigues of astronomy.
Curiosity ( a city of curios?) is a heaven sent gift that makes all of us aspirant poets and scribes: the songlines by Bruce Chatwin about the stories of Aboriginal dreamings and the preciousn "connectedness" underlying it all confirm that humans(& other species) are well attuned to earth movements. It was observed by many that few land animals were hurt in the 2006 asian Tsunamis as most anumals went protectively to higher ground.
I Enjoy the blog , but sometinmes find myself in a sort of hippy groundhog day cross betwen seventies album covers (Jethro Tull. Donovan, and the madnesses of Rimbaux, baudelaire, the Romantacists, Victorian erotica, Odilon Redon and and early "Freres Lumiere" films. Sometimes I think the Steiner schools needs to be held to account ( as believing they monopolise Sophia Mundi) , because we all like narratives ( narrow tives?) and cake and ales. Maybe the net is more like a mediaeval carnival and we still need the jesters and fools even if jester Bob led the way. of course reality might break through from time tto time.