Music in Architecture – Architecture in Music Symposium

Oct. 19 to 21, 2011, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Music in Architecture Poster

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. 

 

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
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
  • Ph.D. 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

Files accompanying "A Dodecahedral House of Blues: From Buckminster Fuller’s Jitterbug Transformation to an Elusive, Bilaterally Symmetrical Harmonic Architecture" by David A. Becker

Files Accompanying "Borromini and Benevoli: Architectural and Musical Designs in a Seventeenth-Century Roman Church" by Julia Smyth-Pinney and David Smyth

Files accompanying "Warps, Ribbons, Crumpled Surfaces, and Superimposed Shapes: Surfing the Contours of Miles Davis’s 'Lost Quintet'" by Michael E. Veal

 

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