Summer Show UCL
posted : 3 July 2010
Summer Show, The Bartlett School of Architecture,
UCL, London, 25 June – 3 July 2010
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, opened its annual Summer Show in London. Students exhibited innovative drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and installations.
Vesna Petresin Robert mentored theses on subjects ranging from film aesthetics informing design methods, OCD in the context of biopolitical development of suburbia, to augmented reality in relation to dislocation of domestic space and identity. [pictured left is the award-nominated project by Keiichi Matsuda]
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Harmonographic Sound Structures
posted : 9 June 2010
New performance by Rubedo
Open Source, Casa da Música, Porto
Rubedo have been commissioned new work for the international event ‘Open Source’ on 12 June 2010 at Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal.
The performance «Harmonographic Sound Structures» addresses analogies between architecture, music and mathematics through the concept of number, rhythm, structure, complexity and synaesthesia.
Using their technique of harmonography, Rubedo designed a digital interface that allows to connect narrative with live sound and film, in real-time.
Exploring sound in space through combination of musical phrases, visual sequences and live improvisation, challenges conventions of composing and performing.
The method of chance connectivity introduces an observer-dependent space to composition. Structures of sound and space become unpredictable: they are shaped in real-time by both material and nonmaterial elements, as well as user interaction.
Like contemporary architecture that engages multiple senses, disciplines and media, this new piece invites an experience that is dynamic and open-ended.
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