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and architecture. Most are not worth noting, but three of the most compelling include
Jean Tinguely's Meta-Harmonie,47 Kitaro- Winds of Youth, 3D Fibonacci Architecture,48
and Christopher Janney's architectural compositions.49 Janney's permanent
installation, David's Way, can be experienced along the Katy Trail in Dallas.
Three specific examples of music and architecture integration conceptually
influenced my composition of 161 Glass. I particularly sought out cases in which
composers and/or architects worked to create a symbiotic relationship between music
and architecture, and those that specifically involved museums. Dancissimo, composed
in 2001 by Philip Glass for the opening of the Milwaukee Art Museum, represents one of
the few pieces in my research created for a museum opening. Glass' primary
consideration for the work was rhythm; "rhythm as an "articulated structure."50
However, his composition did not involve his participation with the space itself. For
David Byrne, however, participation with and articulation of the space was the whole
point in his sound installation, Playing the Building (2008), at the Battery Maritime
Building in New York City. He took an old pump organ and attached wires to various
architectural fixtures in the building to create vibrations and entice the structure to
"sing."51 While Goethe called architecture "frozen music," architect and composer
Marcos Novak considers music to be "molten architecture." He inverses the relationship
47 Jean Tinguely, Meta-Harmonie II- Tinguely Museum, Basel,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOrVxhYFLwM&feature=related (accessed 22 September 2009).
48 Kitaro-Winds of Youth. 3D Fibonacci Architecture,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMBoD TELL8 (accessed 22 September 2009).
9 Christopher Janney. , http://www.arcspace.com/books/aa/aa/html (accessed 4 October 2009).
so Kevin Lerner, Architectural Record, Concrete, Steel and Philip Glass, April 2002.
http://archrecord.construction.com/inthecause/0402PhilipGlass/qlass.asp (accessed 24 September 2009).
51 David Byrne, Playing the Building (BBtv) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= M1D30qS7Z8U
(accessed 22 September 2009).14
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