Bass Concert Hall Lobby
“hEAR TOuch Listen”
Florian Tuerke, René Rissland with Eli Fieldsteel

(with support from Texas Performing Arts)

Papers 1-4

“Borromini and Benevoli: Architectural and Musical Designs in   a Seventeenth-Century Roman Church” - David H. Smyth, Professor of Music, Louisiana State University, and Julia Smyth-Pinney Associate Professor of Architecture, The University of Kentucky

“Visualizing Beethoven’s Architectonics of Distance” - Hedy Law, Assistant Professor of Music History, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Ira Greenberg, Director of the Center of Creative Computation and Associate Professor, SMU

“New Rhythms: Intersections of Architecture and Music in the Abstract Films of Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling - Michael Chapman, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia

“Acoustique Plastique: The Spatial ‘Music’ of Emile Jaques Dalcroze, Adolphe Appia, and Le Corbusier” - Joseph Clarke, PhD Candidate in Architecture, Yale University

Papers 5-7

“Walls of Sound: Harmonies of Modernism and Music in Richard Neutra’s Clark House” - Michael Ostwald Dean and Professor of Architecture, and Michael Chapman Senior Lecturer, The School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia

“A Dodecahedral House of Blues: From Buckminster Fuller’s Jitterbug Transformation to an Elusive Bilaterally Symmetrical Harmonic Architecture” - David A. Becker, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University

“Louis Sullivan, J.S. Dwight, and Wagnerian Aesthetics in the Chicago Auditorium Building” Stephen Thursby, Professor of Music, The University of South Carolina at Sumter

Papers 8-11

“Cage, Chance, and Architecture: Distancing the Formalizing Agent” - Stephen John Harfield, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Technology, Sydney

“Stuart Marshall and the Notation of Space” - Peter Tschirhart, PhD Candidate in Critical and Comparative Studies of Music, University of Virginia

“A Certain Uncertainty” - Yiu-Bun Chan, Dipl. Music Performance, M.Arch. Intern Architect, Toronto

“Rethinking Xenakis and the Role of Information in the Immediate Production of Architectural Affects” - Andrew Lucia, Jenny Sabin, Peter Lloyd Jones, Labstudio & Dept. of Architecture, Cornell University

Papers 12-15

“Music, Landscape Architecture and the Stuff of Landscapes” – Brenda J. Brown, Asst. Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Manitoba

“Along Parallel Lines: Architectural and Musical Notation” - Jim Lutz, Lecturer, Co-Director-Master of Science Sustainable Design Track, School of Architecture, The University of Minnesota 

“Terminology of Space Between Venetian School and New Music” - Yvonne Graefe, Assistant Professor, The Bauhaus-University, Weimar

“Architecture in Motion: A Model for Music Composition” - Jorge Variego, Asst. Professor, Valley City State University, Composer, Fullbright Fellow

Papers 16-19

“Curious Mixtures” - David P. Brown, Associate Director, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Bebop Performances” - Bennett Neiman, Professor of Architecture, Texas Tech University

“London Flat: Manhattan Studio of Jimi Hendrix” - Marie-Paule Macdonald, Associate Professor of Architecture, The University of Waterloo

“Warps, Ribbons, Crumpled Surfaces and Superimposed Shapes: Surfing the Countours of Miles Davis’s ‘Lost Quintet’” - Michael Veal, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Yale University

Roundtable Discussion: "Making Music from Architecture"

above, joined by Colin Ripley, Reyerson University, Toronto; Ellen Fullman, San Francisco; and Marcos Novak, UC Santa Barbara

Closing remarks and farewell by organizers.