The Center for American Architecture and Design, the College of Fine Arts and the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music held the Music in Architecture – Architecture in Music Symposium on the University of Texas at Austin campus in October 2011.
Performance Program Notes
Design & Composition Competition Finalists
Paper Presentations
CENTER 18: Music in Architecture—Architecture in Music Publication
Publication Media Files
Of Interest Since
Design & Composition Competition Finalists
The following 8 finalists were chosen from 70 international entries to the Music in Architecture - Architecture in Music composition and design competition. All are scheduled to be performed live during the MIA-AIM Symposium October 19–22, 2011. (See Program for place and time details). Note: The first five entered as "Mode One" (Music in Architecture). The last three entered as "Mode Two" (Architecture in Music).
Research Embodied
LBJ Library, Grand Hall
Composer: Jeffrey M. Morris, Texas A&M University
Designer: Autumn Casey, Texas A&M University
hEAR TOuch LISTEN
Bass Concert Hall Lobby
Composer: Florian Tuerke, Nuremberg, Germany
Architect/Designer: René Rissland, Eyland 07, Nuremberg, Germany
Performer and Principal Technician: Eli Fieldsteel
The Infinite Space Between
Visual Arts Center (VAC) Gallery
Composer: Kirsten Volness, Providence, RI
Architect: Joshua Lantzy, DownCity Design, Providence, RI
Multimedia and Electronic Music: Jacob Richman, Brown University, RI
seeing times are not hidden
Waller Creek Bridge
Composer: Matthew Teodori, Huston-Tillotson U., Austin, TX
Architects: Norma Yancey and Emily Little, Clayton & Little, Austin, TX
Dock and Load
Perry Castaneda Library (PCL) Loading Dock
Composer: Simon Fink, Missouri Western State University, MI
Architect: Gideon Fink Shapiro, University of Pennsylvania, PA
Theater of the Imagination
Jessen Recital Hall
Composer: Frank Clark, Georgia Tech U., GA
Architect: Cecil Balmond, London, UK
Turnaround City
Mebane Gallery (Goldsmith Hall)
Designer-Composer: Alberto Sacca, Rome, Italy
Composer-Musician: Francesco Pafundi, Rome, Italy
Bridge Harp: Mirror Space
Mebane Gallery (Goldsmith Hall)
Composer: Liam Singer, New York, NY
Architect: Sheryl Jordan, New York, NY
In addition to competition entries above, the following three pieces were commissioned (and are premiers), or were commissioned to be performed (“Persephassa”).
Persephassa
Goldsmith Hall Courtyard
Composer: Iannis Xenakis
Designer: Paul Cret
Performers: line upon line percussion, Meehan/Perkins Duo, and Timothy Briones
Tracings
Battle Hall Library Reading Room
Composer: Ellen Fullman
Architect: Cass Gilbert
Performers: Ellen Fullman and members of the Austin New Music Coop on The Long String Instrument and other instruments.
Low Close Vast
Bass Concert Hall
Composer: Paul Dresher
Designer: Michael Benedikt and Michael Rotondi
Performers: students and faculty of the Butler School of Music
Paper Presentations
The following 19 Finalists were chosen from 80 international entries to the Music in Architecture - Architecture in Music Symposium to deliver papers at the 2011 Music in Architecture – Architecture in Music Symposium and to be subsequently published in Center: Volume 18
A Dodecahedral House of Blues: From Buckminster Fuller’s Jitterbug Transformation to an Elusive Bilaterally Symmetrical Harmonic Architecture
David A. Becker, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida International University
Music, Landscape Architecture and the Stuff of Landscapes
Brenda J Brown
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, University of Manitoba
Curious Mixtures
David P. Brown
Associate Director, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
New Rhythms: Intersections of Architecture and Music in the Abstract Films of Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling
Michael Chapman
Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Newcastle
Acoustique Plastique: The Spatial "Music" of Emile-Jaques Dalcroze, Adolphe Appia, and Le Corbusier
Joseph Clarke, M.Arch
PhD Candidate in Architecture, Yale University
Terminology of Space Between Venetian School and New Music
Yvonne Graefe
Assistant Professor, The Bauhaus-University Weimar
Cage, Chance and Architecture: Distancing the Formalizing Agent
Stephen John Harfield
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Technology, Sydney
Visualizing Beethoven's Architectonics of Distance
Hedy Law
Assistant Professor of Music History, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
Rethinking Xenakis and the Role of Information in the Immediate Production of Architectural Affects
Andrew Lucia
Director, Andrew Lucia Design and Research
LabStudio & Depatment of Architecture, Cornell University
Jenny Sabin
Labstudio & Department of Architecture, Cornell University
Principal, Jenny Sabin Studio
Along Parallel Lines: Architectural and Musical Notation
Jim Lutz
Lecturer, Co-Director-Master of Science Sustainable Design Track, School of Architecture, The University of Minnesota
London Flat: Manhattan Studio of Jimi Hendrix
Marie-Paule Macdonald
Associate Professor of Architecture, The University of Waterloo
Bebop Performances
Bennett Neiman
Professor of Architecture, Texas Tech University
Walls of Sound: Harmonies of Modernism and Music in Richard Neutra’s Clark House
Michael Ostwald
Dean and Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Michael Chapman
Senior Lecturer, The School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Borromini and Benevoli: Architectural and Musical Designs in a Seventeenth-Century Roman Church
David H. Smyth
Galante Professor of Music Theory and Haymon Professor of Music, Louisiana State University
Julia Smyth-Pinney
Fellow, American Academy in Rome
Associate Professor of Architecture, The University of Kentucky
Louis Sullivan, J.S. Dwight, and Wagnerian Aesthetics in the Chicago Auditorium Building
Stephen Thursby
Professor of Music, The University of South Carolina at Sumter
Stuart Marshall and the Notation of Space
Peter Tschirhart
PhD Candidate in Critical and Comparative Studies of Music, University of Virginia
Architecture in Motion: A Model for Music Composition
Jorge Variego
Assistant Professor of Music Theory/Woodwinds, Valley City State University, Fullbright Fellow
Warps, Ribbons, Crumpled Surfaces and Superimposed Shapes: Surfing the Contours of Miles Davis's 'Lost Quintet'
Michael Veal
Professor of Ethnomusicology, Yale University
A Certain Uncertainty
Yiu-Bun Chan
M.Arch., Intern Architect, Dip. M.P., Toronto, Canada
Publication Media Files
Files accompanying "Rethinking Xenakis and the Role of Information in the Immediate Production of Architectural Affects" by Andrew P. Lucia and Jenny E. Sabin
- MIA-AIM Lucia Hallway Difference Information [mp4 download]
Files accompanying "A Dodecahedral House of Blues: From Buckminster Fuller’s Jitterbug Transformation to an Elusive, Bilaterally Symmetrical Harmonic Architecture" by David A. Becker
- MIA-AIM Becker Blues [mp3]
Files Accompanying "Borromini and Benevoli: Architectural and Musical Designs in a Seventeenth-Century Roman Church" by Julia Smyth-Pinney and David Smyth
- MIA-AIM Smyth Sound Sample 1 [mp3]
- MIA-AIM Smyth Sound Sample 2 [mp3]
- MIA-AIM Smyth Sound Sample 3 [mp3]
- MIA-AIM Smyth Sound Sample 4 [mp3]
Files accompanying "Warps, Ribbons, Crumpled Surfaces, and Superimposed Shapes: Surfing the Contours of Miles Davis’s 'Lost Quintet'" by Michael E. Veal
- Agitation Edit (Plugged Nickel 1965) [mp3]
- Agitation Edit (Stolkholm 1967) [mp3]
- Agitation Edit (Rome 1969) [mp3]
- Agitation (Studio Version) [mp3]