After three days at the Newport Jazz Festival. If architecture is an experience, it is not frozen. Each time it is affected by time of day, season, weather, and the prevailing feelings of the experiencer. In that sense it is equivalent to composed music. On the face of it, architecture's sequences are not as predictable as those of music. But I wonder if the neuroscientists' understandings of how we know or remember music and architecture are in fact different. Also, it appears that, unlike music, architecture can exist outside of time. But, then, we are unable to experience it out of time. Though, I suppose, memories of music and architecture may both exist out of time.
All of this said, improvisational Jazz is truly unfrozen music.
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Mike Mense FAIA
New York NY
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