SAMUEL A. BUDIONO & ASSOCIATES
ARCHITECT/PLANNER/INTERIOR DESIGNER
SAMUEL A. BUDIONO - "Music Architecture"
“MUSIC ARCHITECTURE is a symbiosis mutualistic between music and architecture as a result of an expression from the heart to touch the soul of human beings about grace in life.”
~ SAMUEL A. BUDIONO
The German thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said that "Architecture was music become stone" and "Music is liquid architecture, Architecture is frozen music". With music and architecture intermeshed relationships, the tendency has been to perceive music as a metaphorical structure that required translation to visual terms before becoming available to architecture.
There is a similarity between music and architecture. The architectural forms consist of elements that represent a composition of art, which provide the same feelings when we listen to compositions created in musical terms.
Musical terms such as rhythm, texture, harmony, proportion and articulation refer both to architecture and to music. Rhythm in music is patterns of sounds in relation to a beat; repetition of elements - openings, shapes, structural bays - establish a regular or irregular rhythm in architecture. Musical texture refers to layers of sounds and rhythms produced by different instruments. Architecture texture appears in different materials and compositions of elements. Harmony is the balance of sound or composition and the balance of parts together. Proportion is the relationship between parts; in music, it is the distance between notes or intervals. Dynamics is the quality of action in music as well as design exploration of a building's facade or mass in architecture.
