“Resonating Frequencies” is a concept I developed when I was a Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union School of Architecture. From 1990-2014, I taught an Advanced Concepts course titled, “Sound Is A Visual Medium.”  Students were encouraged to explore their interest in architecture mixed with other disciplines including music, film/sound design, acoustics, anthropology, medicine, mechanical engineering, to name a few.  Besides reading books on selected topics and presenting to the class, students also developed sound sketches, toured the Metropolitan Museum of Art Musical Instrument Collection and developed dialogues with a number of guest speakers. Speakers included artist Laurie Anderson, composer David Byrne, acoustician Christopher Jaffe, Coen Brothers Sound Editor Skip Lievsay, and instrument maker/artist Ken Butler.

In 2014, as part of the 25th anniversary of the “New Music America” avant-garde music festival, together with The Kitchen for the Performing Arts, I created a lecture series for the public held in the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Over five nights, once a week, I hosted a dialogue between one architect and one musician on a specific topic.

Week 1- Architect Greg Lynn and composer DJ Spooky-
“If Architecture is Frozen Music, is Music Fluid Architecture?”

Week 2- Landscape architect Martha Schwartz and composer Laurie Anderson-
“Patterns in the Landscape, Patterns in Music, Patterns in Your Mind.”

Week 3- Architect Thom Mayne and composer Philip Glass-
“Pythagoras’s Muse.”

Week 4- Architect Bernard Tschumi and composer MOBY-
“Forms in Rhythm, Rhythmic Formations.”

Week 5- Architect Liz Diller and composer David Byrne (Center for Architecture)-
“Buildings for Music, Buildings as Music.”

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