There are several muses and I think that, while their general methods are similar, each of them has a seperate might, or power. I want to discuss architecture and music. Architecture in music.
Architecture is art, can move us, can change the situation, by the grace of the hospitability of objects. What I think seperates an architectural experience from a sculptural one is this sensation of hospitability. This, for me, is the power of architecture.
In music, a similar mood can emerge — that we subsequently must dub architectural. The mood of 'being well in a place'. That the place is at once established, rooted and alive, moving. I think that these are the prerequisites for an indistinguishable, inextinguishable experience.
Since music is always situated in a space, it needs the muse of architecture to open up this space for the power of music.
Music is the articulation of events in time, and the power of music is firstly the emergence of a place to which these single events belong. I never entertained the idea that one event can lead to another. Everything simply occurs, and every moment can be touching. Every moment is potentially musical. The power of music is secondly the promise of the place that comes into existence. The possibility for a moment of truth, or clarity, through occurrences in time.
Amsterdam, xii '09
