Music + Architecture

[lilusako]

It is interesting that architecture, of all the arts dealing with forms and space-relations, is the one most closely comparable in method with music. I can still recall the sense of elation in a fresh discovery when I saw this identity between the two arts - the one dealing with spatial, the other with time forms, the one appealing to the sense of sign, the other to hearing - for it was a discovery to my own mind. Architecture also finds all its forms ultimately in nature. The tree trunk gave the column, its leaves the first capital; the Roman arch goes back to the cave-roof, the Gothic, to the aisles of a northern forest; yet the main function of architecture is not to copy these forms.

-- Edward Howard Griggs, Music's Meaning to Humanity

and people thought that I was crazy... it truly is all interrelated. for all the people who laughed in my face and thought that my obsession with music was stupid. fuck you.

I'm still somewhat alive. I have a lot to write, but I'll do it some other time. I should be in bed and yet i've discovered how to utilize JStor and have been going nuts researching various articles related to landscape, music, sound and much much more.