Unspoken words: Form as language..music as form

Music as language: "Music is composed in such a way as to deny heirarchic structure and patterning resulting i a succession of events rather than a progression of events"


- Elizabeth Martin: Architecture as a Translation of Music

The beauty of the piano in its form and sound is through its variations. It is through this variations that music is spoken. From a module of interacting elements comes one sound. A piano however is not just this one module, and this is what creates the harmonious relationship from one dinstict sound to the next. It is a variation through its physical composition, a variation through the notes it can play, and the variation of the player's fingertips interacting with the object. These drawings are attempting to address these variations as a form. In an attempt to address the concept of a boundary/surface/field. This is a series of steps that will now attempt to take the instrument/tool ideas and translate them into an architectural language.



















The Variation Theory: Form as language - language as form

There is a relationship between the internals of the piano system, and its external keyboard. All the keys aligned composes the keyboard. In this drawing, i saw a relationship between rhythm in music, and rhythm in its physical composition thus deriving what I hope to be an architectural language..


joint –noun

1.	the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.

I took this idea of the joint as the relationship between the white keys and the black keys on the piano. Its variant combinations, arpeggios, octaves and so forth, determines the variation of these spatial organizations. Is it possible now that a field has been derived? These combinations of solid experimentations can be translated into a field, a surface or even structure. I have discovered an applied tectonics from the abstraction of the piano mechanics.