Thursday, January 7, 2010

morphic resonance

To attend to the resonance of forms, to morphic resonance, is to attend to the production of space by and between bodies. It is also to question the spatiality of the temporal.
The commonplace expression that architecture is frozen music needs to be re-examined from this point of view. Do we mean by this that a building is like a piece of music made immobile so we can investigate the details of its symmetries outside of time, or do we mean that a building is like a musical moment suspended in time, music put on pause so to speak. Or is it the intersection of these two temporalities, one transversal to the other that is significant. Perhaps it is the counterpoint of these two temporal unfoldings as a possible phenomenological experience of architecture that brings the musical to mind.

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