MIA-AIM: Music in Architecture - Architecture in Music Symposium

Tuning
The tuning of architectural spaces as a way to intermingle the processes of sound and musical composition with and into the ideas of spatial conception. Two lines of investigation: For a space to be seen an act of tension of light in material is required. We as architects have been taught to think about architecture as brought up in and by light. This is a root concept of creativity for spatial-thinkers. Along the way of architectures history, light has been a center perspective for the conception of space. What would the consequence of applying sound as a root conception for space casting would generate on aesthetics? Formal experimentation with buildings -not shells- has been regarded as an old practice in the field of acoustics, non-fundamental.

The process of composition: In music a widely established process is intuition based, extemporization, improvisation. The direction has been liberated to incorporate a sensible experience, free from the restriction of a planned result and being the act the perfect result. Architecture is still an activity strongly influenced by the architect composer, the one who makes the final decision. It is in many cases a one man process. The idea of a collaboration between constructors and architects for the final result of, for example, a window design, material finishes, is null, non-existent. The creative liberty of the orchestra (executors) is not present.

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UTSOA The Center for Architecture and Design The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music

01-MAY-2011

Dear Admissions committee, This letter confirms my interest in participating by paper submission in the MIAAIM Symposium to be held October 19-22, 2011 on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. This international competition comes with a much appropriate timing, as a decisive platform for further expansion on the themes of music and architecture, of which both I am fond. Hoping to exchange opinions and ideas for the development and vitality of the arts. The connection between the two has been a quest of study for some years now. I have had experiences in both disciplines that have continuously led me to acknowledge the wide range of collaborations and opportunities for investigation in the field. Some of my previous and actual work in architecture and construction include projects ranging from industrial design, furniture, to public hospitals for the mexican government and private investment developments; as professional practice in various architectural offices throughout Mexico. Furthermore I have continued to enhance my own views and investigations in architecture and experimental design, providing a sense of invention and the integration of personal aspirations, mainly the capitulation of sound as a source for spatial design. Am currently working as an architect at TALCO (Taller Colectivo de Arquitectura y Diseo) a collective workshop of architects and designers, developing projects of industrial design, architecture and arts with a sustainable focus of exploration, experimentation and revaluation of the materials with which we work. The sum of my interests to the day can be widely explained by the current collaboration at the Laboratorio Plasmaht - Laboratory of Investigation in Resonance and Expression of Nature - a nonprofit civic association, founded by Ariel Guzik in 1995, with the primary intention to articulate diverse forms of knowledge, focused to the creation of an empathic language: emotive, universal and direct, between the human being and his surrounding ambient. Through the pursuit of this goal a family of instruments and sculptural machines have been constructed, conceived to relate actively with frames of energy and vibration which emanate from spontaneous manifestations of diverse natural phenomena. Collaborations with the Lab range from art and graphic expositions of the artistic work of Ariel Guzik, to assistance in industrial production and design of the latest machine work: the Cmara Lambdoma, a monumental pipe organ automated by meteorological signals traduced by an electronic system developed by the artist for the Natural History Museum. I am assistant in charge of technical production of the industrial design, which we are about to conclude, though the piece is now working and automated at a high percentage. I have applied the on-line submission to your esteemed institution. Included with this letter are the addresses, CV and the paper abstract. Thank you for your considerations, look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Alberto Navarro Garza

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Physical address: Bajio 273 int. 8 Col. Roma Sur Del. Cuauhtemoc c.p. 06760 Mexico Distrito Federal, Mexico telephone number: 55644868 cellhpone number: 044-5539991641 E-mail: navarro.alberto@gmail.com

CURRICULUM VITAE:
PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Birth date Alberto Navarro Garza 18 November of 1982 Monterrey N.L., Mxico

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ARCHITECTURE URBANISM INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 2011 TALCO (http://www.talco.com.mx) LABORATORIO PLASMAHT (http://plasmaht.org) DELLEKAMP ARCHITECTS (http://www.dellekamparq.com) 2010 LUCIO MUNIAIN ET AL (www.lmetal.com.mx) LABORATORIO PLASMAHT 2009 LUCIO MUNIAIN ET AL 2005 LANDA GARCIA LANDA ARCHITECTS (http://www.landaarquitectos.com) MUSIC - SOUND AND AUDIO DESIGN 2010 Web Publications (http://registrocontinuo.blogspot.com) Another (free improvisation performance) Sound therapy and vocalization for 3th age Shelter 2009 Video and audio representation about architectural concepts. Another Elysium (invited musician to Expo Ser) Afro-Antillean percussion presentation at the Music Workers Union 2008 Improvisation (Pereztroika, Aves de Invierno, Mismos de Ayer) Sound synthesis for meditation, tensegrity, harmonic chant and wind instruments. 2000-2007 Projects ranging from digital synthesis, electrnica-rock crossover, alternative rock, blues and jazz influenced jams. Monterrey, Mexico City, Sydney Australia. COMPETITIONS. Arquine International Competitions, Architectural Association Concrete Geometries, Catedra Blanca, Catedra Luis Barragn, Pase Usted and the day of the Death. Architecture, urbanism, sculpture and instalations. Mention of the jury and finalist.