Archive for May, 2010
4’33” in the Soundscape of a Haunted Guggenheim
The first time I went into Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York City a couple of years ago I was immediately confronted with a cacophony that suggested a blatant case of the sight-centered approach to architecture from which so many modernist buildings suffer: looks fantastic, and sounds awful. Or as R. Murray Schafer […]
Posted on May 9, 2010 at 11:13 am by rjordan · Permalink
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In: Architecture, Film Sound, Sound Installation · Tagged with: Acoustic Design, Acoustics, Architecture, Emily Thopmson, Film Soundtracks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim, R. Murray Schafer, Schizophonia, Soundscape of Modernity
In: Architecture, Film Sound, Sound Installation · Tagged with: Acoustic Design, Acoustics, Architecture, Emily Thopmson, Film Soundtracks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim, R. Murray Schafer, Schizophonia, Soundscape of Modernity