Musi-Tecture: Seeking Useful Correlations between Music and Architecture

Young, Gregory; Bancroft, Jerry; Sanderson, Mark

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“…Both music and architecture involve patterns, rhythms, and the manipulation of space and time to achieve the desired effect. Young (2016) explores how correlations between these disciplines are useful in creating new works and in teaching musical composition and architectural design. Their research focuses on making the correlations useful, taking an implementation approach whereby music becomes a "leap vehicle" (source of inspiration) for architectural composition, and vice versa.…”

Section: Intricate Relation Of Architecture and Musicmentioning

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Utilizing Web Applications for Developing Digital Twin: Case study urban tunnel with kinetic roof

Rezakhani,

Kim

2023

eCAADe Proceedings

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The development of novel design output using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is becoming an important milestone in the architectural design discourse. With the recent encounter of the computational design realm with the diffusion models, it becomes even easier to generate 2D and 3D design outputs. Yet, the utilization of machine learning tools within design computing domains is confined to generating or classifying visual and encoded data. However, it is critical to evaluate the untapped potentials of machine learning technologies in terms of illuminating the implicit correlations and links underlying distinct concepts and themes across a wide range of technical domains. With the ongoing research project named "Local Intelligence", we hypothesized that the local knowledge of a certain location might be conceptualized as a distributed network to connect different forms of local knowledge. As the first case of the project, we tried to reinstate a commonality between the local music and vernacular architecture, for which we trained generative adversarial network (GAN) models with the visual spectrograms translated from the audio data of the local songs and images of vernacular architectural instances from a defined geography. The two multi-modal GAN models differ in terms of the inherent convolutional layers and data pairing process. The outcomes demonstrated that both GAN models can learn how to depict vernacular architectural features from the rhythmic pattern of the songs in various patterns. Consequently, the implicit relations between music and architecture in the initial findings come one step closer to being demystified. Thus, the process and generative outcomes of the two models are compared and discussed in terms of the legibility of the architectural features, by taking the original vernacular architectural image dataset as the ground truth.

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Section: Intricate Relation Of Architecture and Musicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Utilizing Web Applications for Developing Digital Twin: Case study urban tunnel with kinetic roof

Rezakhani,

Kim

2023

eCAADe Proceedings

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Artistic and Structural Connections Between Architecture and Music – a Comparative Case Study of the Forbidden City and Palace Memories

Dong,

Yin,

2024

Nexus Netw J

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Architecture and music have a potential to trigger similar psychological effects in people due to commonalities in artistic and structural properties. Current studies exploring the relationship between architecture and music have often focused on analyzing how music can inspire architectural design, but there have been a lack of studies exploring artistic and structural commonalities between architecture and music in such a context. Therefore, this study adopts semiotics and analogy as an interdisciplinary approach aiming to comprehensively investigate connections and commonalities between architecture and music, particularly in terms of design forms and organization patterns. Using the architecture of the Forbidden City, and the musical piece Palace Memories, as selected cases for this study, this research demonstrates how both of the cases’ artistic forms can be translated into structural similarities in terms of both architecture and music. The results of this study reveal significant commonalities in forms and patterns across the fields of architecture and music for the selected cases. This study provides new perspectives for better understanding potential connections between the two fields, and how each may shed new light and provide surprising insights on the other.

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Musi-Tecture: Seeking Useful Correlations between Music and Architecture

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Utilizing Web Applications for Developing Digital Twin: Case study urban tunnel with kinetic roof

Utilizing Web Applications for Developing Digital Twin: Case study urban tunnel with kinetic roof

Artistic and Structural Connections Between Architecture and Music – a Comparative Case Study of the Forbidden City and Palace Memories

Introduction: Color Me Synesthesia

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