Tuesday, November 28, 2006
For Brian Plust
when you talked today about the chair instrument thing, it reminded me of something. I dont't know if you remember an exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt about 1.5 years ago or so, Extreme Textiles. There was this thing made of high tensile steel cables that were attached from top and bottom at different lengths and angles, you could pull on the cable somewhere around the middle of it as hard as you can and it would produce a sound, a digital synthesizer was hooked up to it I think. It made some beautiful sounds, and when multiple people at a time were pulling on the cables it actually created music... just a something to think about.
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great connection...do it...by first writting a complete conceptual (abstract) program for your workshop...all you have to do is to
1. establish a list of instruments that will be manufactured at this place.
2. research and document the functional requirements (size of workshops,storage, delivery of raw material and finished products, truck access and docking (etc.) for each of the instruments (all of this you should research and at the end establish the approximate sixe and functional layout diagram
for the whole workshop facility (site plan, plans and sections diagramatically)
3. The remainder of the aditional functions, like, lobby, work shop visitors, retail sales, waiting area, coffe shop etc. will be the subject of your "sound/music producing building as instrument.
4. like your example of the chair,
you have to develop immidiatelly (in addition to the above program)
conceptual ideas for how various parts of the architecture become
instruments (chairs, walls, windows, roof. You must draw to scale in plans and sections abstract diagrams (not rendered)
indicating how your building might produce sounds. The list must be
complete:( 1 wind, 2. strings and 3 percussion) You must identify for each a list of sources of sound, such as natural winds on the site through the building, local birds reverberated by the building envelope, human voices and foot steps on stone,airoplane noise fro LaGuardia, or vibrating steel wire (variable lenght and thickness on your chair etc. Your list amd sketches indicating how the building will act as an instrument must be complete and clearly stated and shown. Anything short of that will not do!!!!!!!
This is the last time I am asking you to perform in this class!!!!
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