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First Aired - 12/22/2010 07:00PM
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This week, on 2010's final Burning Down the House, Curtis sits down with two talented architects who also happen to be dedicated musicians: Jacob Alspector and Nick Agneta. Learn the obvious and not-so-obvious relationships between music, music theory, and the process of designing and building structures. The trio discuss the idea of the "addition" and its equivalent in music, plus some famous designers and their musical counterparts (is Frank Gehry the Keith Richards or Iggy Pop of architecture?). This episode was sponsored by Tekserve and their E-Waste Recycling Project.
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Riffing With Structure (15:37)
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Tekserve, E-waste Disposal Events, Tekserve.com, 22nd December, Gerta, Architecture as, Nick Agnetta, Jacob Alspector, Music and Architecture, Holiday Music, MIDI, 3/4 time superimposed over 4/4 time, the cultural arts center in Marian County, each tier of arch was a different sequence and nothing lines up, slide rule with different scales, Pythagorean was a musician AND a mathematician, tuning with an iPhone, they're all professors!, architect musicians are rather rare, Professor Knox, Urban Design, Urban Design has been co-opted by the landscape architects, landscape architects seem to have the attention of the public and the funders, this episode is a bit less structured than usual, Robert Moses's Cross-Town Expressway, there are proportions in chord formations that have a lot to do with geometry and the formation of facade, the demise of the facade, buildings that have no designed facade, the Pythagorean relationship of proportions carries over into chord formations, the tonic the third the fifth and the octave, Fibonacci Sequence, the physics of Western music and the physics of STUFF, Dorian Mode, Year of the Locust, making the sound of locusts with a mandolin, the overtone series, cross frequency overlaps, the harmonic series, mandolin as locust, frozen, music,Breaking the Mold (12:57)
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breaking the mold, you can't have riffs without an underlying structure, the Frank Gehry building on 18th Street (IAC Building), riff WITHOUT structure, 'playing against', Jean Nouvelle, this is NOT Charlie Rose, 'architecture and music will combine in the process', choosing (or not committing) to either architecture or music, an online architect forum, architecture as a spontaneous activity, improvising, Vitruvius wrote about his father playing Beethoven on the piano at night, music is very much a physical activity while architecture is not, the physicality of the built world, the depth of making architecture is far more demanding than the depth of making music, the manipulation of the physical environment, Mozarts or Keith Richards?, is Frank Gehry the Keith Richards or Iggy Pop of architecture?,Do Musicians Do "Additions?" (33:19)
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do musicians do 'additions'?, Nick's musical 'addition' to Janis Joplin, is it addition or accompanyment?, Hanselmann House, putting your ego aside and playing with the rules given you, the memory of the original piece, remixing, music has remakes whereas architecture does not, what is a remake?, Viollet Le Duke and his restorations, the West Side Railyards, Frank Repas, Raphael Vinoly, sketch all the facades of Central Park West, Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon's death, Ode to a Songwriter, win a Macbook Air! at Tekserve.com, Works Progress Administration, Starchitects, Eyeworm / Earworm, 2010 has been a hell of a year,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/11/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis spoke to David McFadden, chief curator at the Museum of Art and Design in Manhattan. David spoke about two of MAD's current exhibitions, "Dead or Alive" (focusing on man's relationship with animals and nature) and "Bespoke" (an exhibition of glorious handmade custom bicycles). Be sure and tune in for an intriguing look inside one of NYC's best places to see art, artists in residence at work, and an open look at the construction of every exhibition. This episode was sponsored by Tekserve: your one stop Apple superstore.
Photo #1: Dead or Alive exhibit, Photo #2: The Museum of Art & Design
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Burning Down The House Intro - The Meaning in the Making (17:30)
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Burning Down The House, Curtis B. Wayne, the only weekly design show all over the planet, Tekserve, everything related to the Mac computer, East Williamsburg Industrial Park, Bushwick, Roberta's, David McFadden, Museum of Arts & Design, Columbus Circle, The MAD Museum, Dead or Alive, The magic of creative transformation, multiples of things that used to be alive, resuscitated by the artist, a paleolithic quality, relationship with the living world, Mad Cow Motorcycle, Billie Grace Lynn, Museum of Contemporary Craft, focus on materials and process, there's meaning in the making of things, current show open through October 24th, Tim Hawkinson, Ab Ova, knitting together eggshells, curating, Cooper Hewitt Museum, The Nelson Rogers Museum, Herman Hesse, desperate for culture, technical theater, every object has purpose, Bob Israel, Minnesota, Midwestern mafia, the DIY movement, the cooking phenomenon, getting back into the process of making, Keith Bentley, horsehair, Susie Macmurray, black feathers, The Red House, The English's special relationship with nature, Depeche Mode,The Nimble Exhibitions (28:43)
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Everything counts, www.tekserve.com, David McFadden, chief curator of the Museum of Arts & Design, the world of museums, every art informs every other art, craft, the melding of idea with execution, the old hierarchies of art, no boundaries anymore between art forms, Tischen, intentionally crude art, interrelationships between science and art, Leonardo da Vinci, the art of cooking, museum curators love to cook, the raw elements of life, all the senses, artists working with unusual materials, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Tara Donovan, using organic materials, thank goodness for the internet, the cube of dead flies, Kate McGuire, Discharge, waterfall of pigeon feathers, donated pigeon feathers, painting with cockroach wings, reliquaries, Joseph Cornell's boxes, apothecary bottles, glass artists, The Apothecarium Moderne, Tim Tate, Marc Petrovic, museum as a treasure house, whimsy and humor are profound human emotions, laughing out loud in the gallery, expanding the art audience, prehistoric times, Michael Maharem, Maharem fabrics, Bespoke, custom handmade bicycles, revealing the beautiful bones of the bicycle, the largest mountain bike tires Curtis has ever seen, bicycle chains look like jewelry, unusual initiative, the nimble exhibitions, redesigning radiators, Moma, icons of design, get inside the mind of the designer, what woven mesh can do, open artist studios on the 6th floor of the MAD Museum, artists in residence, opens up a world of accessibility, New Yorkers don't always get out to galleries, most people haven't had a chance to talk to a professional artist, metal work, glass work, one of the reasons Burning Down The House exists, architecture as art, access to people in the field, the phenomenon of television cooking shows, documenting work processes, create the work right in the studio, installation in progress, watching the exhibition installation, understanding art, not feeling stupid when you leave the museum, the social contract, a willingness to pay for art, Bank Bailout, where's the money for the creative arts?, individuals fund the arts, Karim Rashid, Peter Gabriel,Beatifully Crafted (8:26)
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David McFadden, Museum of Arts & Design, Columbus Circle, dandelions, Studio Drift, Lonneke Gordijn, Ralph Nauta, Fragile Future, 2000 dandelion seed heads glued to LED lights, as nature created them, the intersection of art and technology, Pantyhose and Red Lentils, Larry Simms, a couple of interesting changes at the MAD museum, The Global Africa Project, international art and design from the African diaspora, Otherworldly, dioramas, miniature versions of other worlds, One Rule: No Photoshop, beautifully crafted, claymation, an incredible number of artists are making snow globes, zoetrope, buying a membership, no advertising budget, all word-of-mouth, Robert restaurant on the 9th floor, one of the great views, Robert Isabelle, Curtis B. Wayne, Dan Breindel,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
