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Architects Design Music: Victoria Meyers architect performs at the Kitchen Space for Performance and Art, NYC

Above:  Victoria Meyers poses with the other performers.  Architects Perform Music was presented at the Kitchen Space for Performance and Art.  Collaborators include Michael J. Schumacher, composer.

A view of the performance of Victoria's 'LightScore'.

The Cellest who participated in Architects Design Music. 

New Sound, New York, presented by the Kitchen and Cooper Union's School of Architecture with Time Out New York.  'Architects Design Music' is an indoor performance of electronic and interactive music at the Kitchen.  NSNY embarked from a legendary starting point:  the Kitchen's 1979 New Music, New York.  In that festival, Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk, and Phillip Glass established the basis for much of the new music and sound art.  The performance presented here was part of the the 25th anniversary gala celebration of that event. 

 

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Below: The Poster for 'New Sounds New York'.  Above:  Victoria's original LightScore, performed by the musicians.

Below:  Projection of the 'LightScore':  Circle.

Above:  Square.

Circle.

Above:  Final projection of the LightScore:  Line, to end the piece. 

NSNY's live series was co-curated by the Kitchen's Christopher McIntyre, with guest curators for each event.  The celebrations opened with composer and Diapason Gallery founder Michael Schumacher's Architects Design Music. 

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hMa, Victoria Meyers architect, are known for their senstivity to landscape and site.  This attention to site and landscape is evident in the images of the firm's Upstate New York residence, above.  The house is sited on twentry-five acres in Garrison, New York.

hMa used a combinatio of wood and stone to create the reading of the house.  In this case, the wood, a light-colored exterior ash siding, took on a similar coloration to the cut limestone used in two 65-foot long landscape walls that were used as major generative elements of the house design

hMa cut holes in the roof at various locations, to create framed views of sky.  The house also has a relationship to water:  in the pool beyond the stone landscape wall in the photo, above.  And in the architectural promenade through the house to the lake, to the west.

The house was designed with openings that frame views of the house, in this case, the view from the porte cochere of the garage, toward the main living room space.  The entry porch in the foreground.

Projects that were reviewed with the client during the design process include Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House.  Above:  custom screens were built, and create scrim views toward the landscape. View west, overlooking the pond.

Above: Landscape frames a living room, looking north. The house sits surrounded by old growth trees. Water to the north, and to to the west. Stone, water, wood, wind and light.

View looking east toward the living room, up the hill, with the pond, behind the person taking this shot.  The pond is approximately forty feet below this location in the landscape.

View looking east, living room pavilion in foreground;  master bedroom wing visible above the limestone wall, to the east, above.  precision cuts in the formal rendering of the house frame views from one wing to the other.

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Ramps/ Stairs, demonstrated by the Ramp at Pratt Pavilion:

Rocks, demonstrated by Rocks in Teardrop Park, at hMa's Battery Park City North Neighborhood Master Plan:

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Weave Architecture, demonstrated by hMa's design concept for Landscape at Battery Park City's North Neighborhood, Woven Fabric:  

Wind, demonstrated by hMa's diagram for changing weather patterns, NYC:

Window/ Sky Frames, demonstrated by hMa's studies for the Courtyards / Meditation Hall at Won Buddhist Retreat, Claverack, New York:

 

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Cincinnati, Ohio is part of the United States' Rust Belt.  An area that has been decimated economically in the past 10+ years, especially after the 2008 crash.  Cities such as Braddock, Pa. had simple, singular economies, which depended mostly on steel and steel plants for their incomes.



As steel plants closed across this region, the area was decimated. Only cities that had diversified economies survived.  Above:  Bradddock, Pa.



Another image of Braddock, Pa., above.



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Above:  another scene from Brownsville, Pa.




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Above:  another new technolgy sector business in Cincinnati:  Cincytech. 

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