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"Architecture is frozen music..."

-Goethe

 

But is architecture really just frozen music?

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As a trained musician, I process sound in the built environment by drawing upon my earliest experiences of growing up playing clarinet with my family. I learned from an early age to apply a musical lens to architecture and have recently begun to question architecture’s own relationship to the modern soundscape. 

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Supported by the 2024 Bob Hull Research Grant, Frozen Music is a 
re-examination of the 100-year old trope from a disciplinary perspective. The study explores how architectural soundscapes are active, complex, aleatoric, and constantly evolving. 

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I ask of the profession: 

 

To what extent are architects responsible for the soundscapes we create? 
Should architects become the author of sounds in the built environment?  
How might we begin to spatialize sound?

 

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© 2024 Jonathan Nelson

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