architectural parameters vs ‘flow’

In music composition you may operate with certain parameters such as density, pitch / frequency, texture, duration, transparency, opacity, collision, collapse, intensity, flow/movement, rhythm, volume, timbre – dynamics – contents of a spatial narration.

Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec showed some examples in Ljubljana (some stimulating spatial experience/awareness/appearance). For instance we heard sound/noise, simultaneously followed by 2D transcriptions of some parameters.

To make music you either work directly with these parameters, graphically, as in electronic generation of sound, or more indirectly, as in any manipulation of some musical ‘sketch’ / notation.

Architecture operates with similar parameters, at least in architectural description of projects / buildings, often with intuitively based transcriptions, from space/drawing to text. For instance: We talk about ‘flow’ without communicating the character of it. Transcriptions through parameters may assist this communication, and even make it possible to generate architectural space from transcriptions – in the first place.

Anyone using parameters like this?

Jon nc/N

posted by dr jon
Wed, 03 Dec 2003 06:00:11 GMT