Arch 621: Visual Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Architecture [2009]
“In music it is the instruments that produce the color. And for me, that instrumental color robs the sound of its immediacy. The instrument has become for me a stencil, the deceptive likeness of a sound. For the most part it exaggerates the sound, blurs it, makes it larger than life, gives it a meaning, an emphasis it does not have in my ear.”
-Morton Feldman
Course Descrption:
This course section examines difference and rhythm as they pertain to space, time and perceptual phenomena. We make particular use of particular 20th century avant-garde music compositions** which heavily explored notions of difference, rhythm, technique, memory, and form. The goal being to understand the act of drawing and creation, both spatially and temporally, through the lens of these particular historic examples**.
The aim is to not only explore the compositional techniques presented**, but to also achieve a dynamic drawing which goes beyond process and becomes an affectual drawing, or a drawing which elicits unexpected sensorial outcomes. How can the act of creating through time, with a keen eye towards difference and rhythm, produce accumulated affects which push drawings beyond process? Here, we treat events which contribute to output as notated acts which are part of a composition.
**Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, Terry Riley |
