RE: [microsound] Music and architecture

[Gunnar Garness <ggarness@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 	I find the interaction of these two fields fascinating.
> There are, of
> course, several approaches that have been taken. One that I've been
> pursuing lately has been of recording the acoustic environments inside
> certain structures. I've seen the term "tectonics" used in music but it
> really seems (to me, at least) to apply to field recordings of building
> acoustics. Recording the everyday activities and how they sonically
> interact with a given structure. I think it would be a great idea for a
> compilation. I have a comp (The Sound Inside: Music and Architecture)that
> has various people performing music within various structures, but to
> just record the environments themselves would make me a happy listener.


Perhaps you may enjoy Harold Budd's new disc "The Room" in which each piece
attempts to describe the sonic and psychological qualities space in for
which it was named.  Beautiful and lots of subtles suprises.

Gunnar