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The study of architecture moves beyond the physical structure itself to consider the social spaces it defines or enables, activities catalyzed, possibilities opened, or limited. We live in and through architecture, and we live in and through music, usually simultaneously. | The study of architecture moves beyond the physical structure itself to consider the social spaces it defines or enables, activities catalyzed, possibilities opened, or limited. We live in and through architecture, and we live in and through music, usually simultaneously. | ||
| − | We can move here beyond conventional structural homomorphism theories of the social sciences (which would see core meanings | + | We can move here beyond conventional structural homomorphism theories of the social sciences (which would see core cultural meanings and values (including sacredness) multiply expressed in various domains, i.e. in the geometry of buildings, and the structure of musics, perhaps one performed within the other), or attempts to translate one "art" into another (e.g. Goethe's "architecture as frozen music"), or the more creative architectural dimensions of contemporary music (as in Xenakis, or spatial electroacoustic music), to consider music-making and living-in-buildings as both being profoundly social activities. |
| − | Just as an architectural space defines resonant frequencies -- acting as a passive filter on sound produced within -- it may be that we can speak also of social-kinetic resonances, social filtering - ways in which the space and its architectural boundaries | + | Just as an architectural space defines resonant frequencies -- acting as a passive filter on sound produced within -- it may be that we can speak also of social-kinetic resonances, social filtering - ways in which the space and its architectural boundaries come to bear upon kinetic and (more generally) social-communicative activity. |
| − | Perhaps it is possible to apply | + | Perhaps it is possible to apply [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxemics proxemics] (a field developed by Edward Hall) - how people interact and communicate within humanly-organized space, and the meanings of those spatial interactions, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesics kinesics] (Birdwhistell), or the framing ideas of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman Erving Goffman] (b. in Alberta!). People interact/communicate spatially through sound, whether musical or linguistic, and sonically through space. |
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John Blacking viewed music as "humanly organized sound". Similarly, one might hear architecture as "humanly organized space".
The study of architecture moves beyond the physical structure itself to consider the social spaces it defines or enables, activities catalyzed, possibilities opened, or limited. We live in and through architecture, and we live in and through music, usually simultaneously.
We can move here beyond conventional structural homomorphism theories of the social sciences (which would see core cultural meanings and values (including sacredness) multiply expressed in various domains, i.e. in the geometry of buildings, and the structure of musics, perhaps one performed within the other), or attempts to translate one "art" into another (e.g. Goethe's "architecture as frozen music"), or the more creative architectural dimensions of contemporary music (as in Xenakis, or spatial electroacoustic music), to consider music-making and living-in-buildings as both being profoundly social activities.
Just as an architectural space defines resonant frequencies -- acting as a passive filter on sound produced within -- it may be that we can speak also of social-kinetic resonances, social filtering - ways in which the space and its architectural boundaries come to bear upon kinetic and (more generally) social-communicative activity.
Perhaps it is possible to apply proxemics (a field developed by Edward Hall) - how people interact and communicate within humanly-organized space, and the meanings of those spatial interactions, or kinesics (Birdwhistell), or the framing ideas of Erving Goffman (b. in Alberta!). People interact/communicate spatially through sound, whether musical or linguistic, and sonically through space.
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keywords/keyphrases
anthropology/sociology of architecture (cf. anthropology of music)
music/sound and/in architecture
sacred/spiritual/Islamic space/sound
music and sacred/spiritual architecture
sacred/spiritual music and architecture
music and Islamic architecture
Islamic music and architecture
sound, architecture, acoustics, architectural acoustics, architectural sociology (socio-architecture? ethno-architecture?), space, movement (kinetics), social interaction, social/cultural geography, visual anthropology, documentary film, Islam, sacred space, sacred architecture, ritual, performance....
articles
Music, acoustics, and architecture, by Leo Beranek
Music and Architecture, by Paul Waterhouse
Learning from architecture: music in the aftermath to postmodernism, by Nikolas Kompridis
Music-Tecture: Seeking Useful Correlations between Music and Architecture
The Reconstruction of the Abbey Church at St-Denis (1231-81): The Interplay of Music and Ceremony with Architecture and Politics, by Anne Walters
Architecture and Music Reunited: A New Reading of Dufay's "Nuper Rosarum Flores" and the Cathedral of Florence, by Marvin Trachtenberg Renaissance Quarterly > Vol. 54, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 740-775
Buddhism and Music, by Ian W. Mabbett, Asian Music > Vol. 25, No. 1/2, 25th Anniversary Double Issue (1993), pp. 9-28
The Poetics of Arab-Islamic Architecture
J Tonna - Muqarnas, 1990 - JSTOR
books
Personal Author: Ankerl, Géza. Title: Experimental sociology of architecture : a guide to theory, research, and literature / Guy Ankerl. Publication info: The Hague ; New York : Mouton, c1981.
http://www.jstor.org/view/03186431/ap060036/06a00140/0?frame=frame&userID=8ef42d22@ualberta.ca/01c0a8346a00501d33d85&dpi=3&config=jstor (dismissive review, ironically by a UofA prof!)
Personal Author: Waterson, Roxana. Title: The living house : an anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia / Roxana Waterson. Publication info: Singapore ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
http://www.jstor.org/view/03852342/ap040053/04a00250/0 (review)
http://www.papress.com/bookpage.tpl?isbn=1568980124&cart=1118424803349320
websites
http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/sacredspacesconference.html
http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/858
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_architecture
http://home.worldcom.ch/negenter/005_ResSerOnline.html
http://home.worldcom.ch/negenter/014aBaubioE_Tx1.html
courses
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnjja/architectureclass.pdf
http://www.architecture.yale.edu/drupal/index.php?q=node/1306
