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Mineral & Myth: Richard Carter

Architect Richard Carter connects the music of Keith Rowe and John Surman with his home town of Plymouth. Mineral & Myth My home town is an old, old town; straddling a boundary in remote language and landscape; yeth ha tir, quartered by water; Hamoaze Laira Cremyll Cattewater Deep chill waters lap a myriad of black…

Musicity: Introduction by Nick Luscombe

Musicity – by Nick Luscombe From Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit (2014) in the Olympic Park to Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North (1998) in Gateshead just off the A1, here in Britain we are used to seeing artworks in public places. Architects, property developers, urban planners and regeneration agencies have regularly commissioned visual artists to make work that…

London Underground: Alice Nicolov

London Underground: Alice Nicolov How do we relate to the cities that are important to us? The cities we live in, learn in, love in? The cities that shape us and give us our identity? Most of all, how do we understand and process the cities that we call home? London is my city, and…

Architecture x Music: Sooski

Musician and architect Sooski discusses the connections between her two creative practices: Architecture is an imperative part of our life and environment; it affects our experiences, feelings, memories and ultimately the decisions we make. It can tap into our mind and build new meaningful experiences. Similarly when it comes to music, we associate it with memories…

Musicity – Press Association Feature

The Press Association made a short film about Musicity. The project’s founder, Nick Luscombe and architect and sound artist Paul Bavister explain the background to the project and how they work with artists and musicians. You can watch it here: Musicity Press Association Film

Simon Vincent – Feeling Sound

Thoughts and Observations on the Relationship Between Music and Architecture by Simon Vincent. Part 1: Introduction. The following words introduce an adaptation of work that I undertook in 1990 on the possible links between music and architecture, as part of my studies in music composition. Reading the text some 27 years later, it may occasionally…

SA-X and the City: Rebecca Morrill

A Revolutionary Format: In Praise of the Tape by Rebecca Morrill In summer 2017, in the window of a record shop in Edinburgh’s Old Town, a hand-written sign announced simply ‘Tapes!!!’. The three exclamation marks caught my eye, suggesting the writer was rather surprised to be selling them again. This was a format that was…

Architect Paul Bavister and his work with Musicity

Paul Bavister from architectural firm Flanagan Lawrence outlines his work with Musicity to help develop the creative response of the commissioned artists to various spaces. Background The design of spaces for listening has not, historically, been a linear process. For thousands of years, built architecture and musical repertoire have formed a coexistent symbiosis, each factor informing…

Architecture x Music: Simon James

Architecture x Music by Simon James (The Simonsound) “Music, like architecture, is time and space. Music and architecture alike are a matter of measure” Le Corbusier Music and architecture share many things in common and are linked through centuries of cross pollination, interaction and evolution. As Le Corbusier’s quote stated, they are both art forms…

The Deed and Prosper by Elizabeth Kane

The Deed and Prosper – Elizabeth Kane The great swathe of land that makes up London’s Dockland’s is a malfunctioning time machine. Vast glass office walls scrape against the charm of what once was the noble entrance to the London Docks, reiterating the moment the bulldozers beat monuments of Britain’s industrial past to the ground. Ashes…

The Composer’s View: Simon Vincent

Musicity Introduction by Simon Vincent As architecture traverses space, so humans traverse architecture. As music traverses acoustic space, so humans are traversed by music. It is difficult, if not impossible, to formulate an opening sentence that will somehow both describe succinctly the nature of architecture and music, their relationship to each other and the way…