Architecture + Music = Frozen Poetry
Sergio Martinez, Socal.com Editor
Goethe said it best: Architecture is frozen poetry. Except that we all
know that poetry is just about everything, so that he could’ve as well
meant: Architecture is frozen music.
And to bring about the defrost, local digital wiz CONSTANT FLUX will be
duking it out along with VJ FOC:EYE at the A + D Architecture and Design
Museum (5900 Wilshire Blvd, directly across from LACMA on Museum Row)
on July 28th from 6 to 10 pm.
Best of all, the event is FREE so take this chance to peek at amazing new
trends in architecture while also allowing your ears to tune-in to some new,
experimental sounds and your eyes to some bodacious visual candy.
Constant Flux and Foc:eye are performing as part of the opening celebration
for the exhibit 2x8: SWELL. Both artists have a reputable career in both the
local and international scenes for truly radical sound and VJ work. They’ve
steeped their compositions for this exhibit into all things urban, considering
the exhibit’s metropolitan theme. Many of their sounds are ‘based on
architectural forms and structures. The sonic sculptures are then used to
create compositions intended to reflect our cities vibrant pace and complex
landscape. Everything is then translated back into the visual realm by motion
visual artist collaborators.
And what’s 2x8 SWELL, you may ask?
Well, check it out, directly from their PR materials:
2x8 : SWELL
JULY 14 - AUGUST 18
The 2x8 is an annual exhibition sponsored by the AIA/LA (American Institute
of Architects), showcasing exemplary student work from architecture and
design institutions throughout California. Celebrating the unequaled diversity
in pedagogical directions, each of the sixteen participating academic
programs select two projects that exemplify its core vision. Through this
important exhibition, we hope to forge an invaluable link between this
emerging talent and the professional world, giving rise to significant
collaborations and alliances vital to the improvement of our built environment.
This year's fourth annual 2x8 exhibition is entitled Swell. Open to many
interpretations, Swell encompasses a wide variety of processes and
pedagogies these institutions offer. Each of the participating institutions is
given the freedom to utilize, define or manipulate the phrase as it wishes,
creating a remarkable range of ideas and imagery illustrated in the selected
projects. In addition to these presentations, student-run forum at the exhibit
space will extend a critical discourse on design and its impact in the local and
global community.
