THE INSTRUMENT

People like Rachmaninoff and Mozart famously didn’t have sketches of their work. They could simply conjure onto the page a complete piece. The rest of us aren’t able to do that. We need a series of stages, tools, and a system in order to create.

Iannis Xennakis was one of the first modern composers to foresee this perplexity. Being both a composer and an architect, he saw the need for a broader approach to both arts, one that would not limit itself to tradition. Since at least the sixth century BC, music and architecture have been intimately joined by a cosmic connection, the idea that they both are generated by an underlying code. A single primary language of tension and release, time and rhythm, composition and harmony, all structured around mathematic and geometric principals.

This interconnectedness can be harnessed to develop a new tool-instrument for representation-performance of design development. A creative process of design that can translate architectural information and concerns (context) into a singular abstract language, and then from it to extract The New. An interdisciplinary and holistic system. Combining two disciplines without compromising the identity of either. A two-way track of open communication and creation.