Living inside a musical instrument: The Wege House.
The house is set up with a series of musical experiences that are intriguing and inviting for the Wege family and guests. Curious fingers of any musical background find the excitement of bringing the Architecture to life through sound/music.
All the Architectural instruments are based around strings. The Architecture becomes the structure, bridge and resonator for these giant stringed instruments. Specially developed brass wire and piano wires are used as “the strings” of the instruments. The use of long string technologies developed by Bill Close allow for the instruments to be architectural in scale. The complex patterns of strings are extension of the architectural lines of the house and become an integral part of the visual experience.
Philosophy, Pictures, and Movies available at the site. (Note: "Architectural in scale" means that the stringed installations are huge, rising multiple stories inside the house.)
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Posted by johndan at January 31, 2005 09:43 PM | TrackBack