Archive for March, 2012

Spaces speak, are you listening?

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Spaces speak, are you listening? Barry Blesser – Linda Ruth Salter

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10947

 

Le Corbusier – “L’Espace Indicible” (1945)

Friday, March 30th, 2012

An excerpt from Le Corbusier’s L’Espace Indicible” from 1945

“[…] Action of the work (architecture, painting or sculpture) on around: waves, shouts or cries (the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens), spouting lines such as radiation, operated as an explosive: the site near or far is shaken, affected, dominated or caressed. Reaction of the medium: the walls of the room, its dimensions, the square with the weight of its various fronts, bodies or slopes of the landscape and even the bare horizon of the plains or mountains with their tensions, the whole atmosphere influenced in this place is a work of art, indicating a willingness of man, imposing its depths or its projections, its hard or fuzzy densities, its violence or its sweetness […].”

More from UT – MIA-AIM

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

http://vimeo.com/groups/118544/videos

Ellen Fullman and her Long String Instrument in Battle Hall Library, UT, Austin.

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Ellen Fullman and her Long String Instrument in Battle Hall Library, UT, Austin. The piece, “Tracings”, is a new hour-long composition-improvisation based on the dimensions and proportions of the room.  Colloborating with Ellen are members of the Austin New Music Coop, led by Travis Weller.

http://vimeo.com/groups/118544/videos