<< SEPTEMBER 15–18 AND 22–25, 2011
For the second edition of stillspotting nyc, composer Arvo Pärt and the architects at Snøhetta collaborate on a series of stillspots around Lower Manhattan that explore the special relationship between space and sound. Pärt’s concept oftintinnabuli (“little bells” in Latin), which forms the basis of most of his work, was born from a deeply rooted desire for an extremely reduced realm of sound that could not be measured, as it were, in kilometers or even meters but only in millimeters. In our busy everyday lives in cities such as New York, we often don’t realize how our ears continually need time to adjust to strong differences between the sounds that surround us—just as the pupils of the eyes only gradually accommodate to the change from light to dark. Pärt strongly believes that our mind and senses do register these differences unconsciously, and at times we could benefit from a stronger awareness of these gradual transitions. Oftentimes the mysterious phenomenon of sensory adaptation is best observed through reduction rather than growing complexity. Reduction certainly doesn’t mean simplification, but it is the way—at least in an ideal scenario—to the most intense awareness of the essence of stimuli.>>
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| Ver video con la obra Magnificat, de Arvo Pärt |
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