"As more slaves came to America.

The talking drum became a silent drum.

The drum stopped.

The drum stopped communicating."

For a while.

The hiatus of the African voice would come to an end after years. 

Years of slavery.

Years of submissiveness.

Years of pain.

Until it found its voice!

OLODUM 

The african american group who protests in the streets of Brazil with music. Against racial discrimination, they make their instruments and voices echoes throughout the Brazilian territory.

The language is now understood. It was vocalized. But the rhythim structures and syncopation have kept faithful to its roots in Africa.

OLODUM PROTEST

Strength and modesty Freedom to the people of Pelourinho (historic centre of Salvador) A true mother feels pain during labour And here I go. Declared the nation, Pelourinho against prostitution We protest and manifest And here I go. We expanded here And terror already dominates Brazil. Report abuse, Olodum and Pelourinho And here I go. Brazil leadership The elite force inside the pollution Featured in the terror, Cubatão (a polluted city in Brazil) And here I go.

And here I go. Northeastern Brazil In Bahia there is Ethiopia The country turns their back on the northeast And here I go. We are able Our God brings the truth to us Monument for strength and peace And here I go.

And here I go. I dismount you Against the apartheid there in South Africa Welcoming Nelson Mandela The Olodum And here I go. Mozambique, Mozambique, Mozambique Mozambique, Mozambique, Mozambique

Characteristics                     or   

                 Attribute 

Loudness isn't noise.

Although we tend to associate

Loud sounds to noise,

They are not the same thing.

The way I see it
Noise can differ from place to place

It is a term

associated with 

discomfort.

Classical music played,

Even though is beautifully produced and composed

During an exam

It can be understood

As noise

Whereas
Kurt cobain's grungy GUITAR SOLOS at crowded arenas is not.

Solos which ressamble in a way
Marco Fusinato's performance
Exploring the essence of noise:
FREE

So noise

Isn't a permanent characteristics of a sound.

But instead,
It's something we attribute,
Due to a situation.

Noise is context.

Here is an example of this:

Song: Patience - Guns and Roses 

When there is silence,                 

           the environment screams

First of all, let's discuss two of John Cage's perspectives towards silence.

1st - Silence is music. Silence is art:

4'33" - John Cage

4 minutes and 33 seconds

of an orchestrated piece

that has nothing

 but

 silence.

So I ask you:

"Is silence always art?"

If so, then, is this art?

YES?

NO?

It is just a quiet library after all.

So would you be surprised if I told you I've changed the audios between the videos?

2nd - There is no such thing as silence.

There is always a sound emitter.

It is either the surrounding

or oneself.

<see anechoic chamber video>

For this perspective, I believe cage was fully right.

'Sound' is constant.

Always surrounding us.

Takes one to stop hearing and start listening to see this. Or hear.

With that in mind, the notion of SOUND AS ENVIRONMENT is born.

The environment is always speaking.

It talks to us constantly,

but we do not pay close attention.

However,

 when there is silence,

it screams.

I'll give you 1 simple example:

1. STOP! Listen to your surrounding. 

Do it now. 

Do it in the library.

Do it at home. 

Do it in the shower

Do it at the beach

Do it anywhere. 

And you will hear sound.

Nevertheless,

it does not mean it can be art.

Would you say the following video is art?

The footage was taken at Coogee Beach (Sydney, Australia)

But the audio was replaced by "Notus", by Cristof Minoge

(Which is part of the series named "South Winds")

So is it still art? Was it ever? Either the video or the audio?
 I believe no.

Nature is beautiful,

and so are the sounds it produces.

But the same way 'not all art is beautiful',

not all beauty is art.

Art is,

by definition,

'the expression or application of human creative skills and imagination'.

Nature is not art.

It CAN BE art.

But it isn't.

Example 1 of Nature as Art:

Walter de Maria - Ocean Music

INTERPRETATION THROUGH AUDIO JUXTAPOSITION

Here the performer utilizes the waves sounds as a guideline to his percussion composition. Synchronizing rhythm and intensity.

Example 2 of Nature as Art:

AUDIO: Tom Bruynél - Rain
VISUAL: Rain shot with Sony a7s

ALLUSION THROUGH AUDIO SUBSTITUTION

In this audio work, I've combined a visual aspect to contextualize.

Here we observe as Bruynèl alludes to the rainfall through peaceful piano sounds resembling the drops drizzling from above.

so is the sound as environment art?

For me, it is only art when human interference is involved.

Yes, environment produces sounds.

But only human creativity transforms it into art.

THE BRIDGE - Submission

Creation of an article

CLASH OF ARCHITECTURE TITANS: THE DILEMMA OF MODERN HOUSING

The Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia, upon recommendation from Alejandro Aravena, have announced that 98 percent of everything that is built and designed today is “pure shit”. “Houses today are not attached to a value”-Raphael Sperry, founder of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. 

Frank Gehry claimed that there’s no sense of design, no respect for humanity or for anything else [in houses projects these days]. This was Gehry’s response to Deanna VanBuren’s thesis project, that consisted in a [housing complex in] Paquetá Island, in the middle of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, which both integrates [dwellings] with a school of [architecture] and is embedded within the community. 

Paulo Mendes da Rocha has used his thesis project to add to this debate, [defending that] VanBuren’s thesis could be the radical approach answer to the stretched [housing] system in the city of Rio. 

Amongst several international architects, Mendes da Rocha [has been] both criticizing and defending current architecture, however, as a designer of houses and apartment buildings, the Brazilian architect supports VanBurren, [saying she is] rethinking what a house can achieve, positing it as a place where [dwellers] and students can learn from each other, giving students the chance to get a sense of the real-life situations which they study, and offering the [residents] intellectual stimulation and a deeper understanding of the [architectural] structure in which they are entangled. 

REFERENCE LIST:

"Paulo Mendes Da Rocha Awarded Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement." ArchDaily. 2016. Accessed May 07, 2016. http://www.archdaily.com/786934/paulo-mendes-da-rocha-awarded-golden-lion-for-lifetime-achievement-venice-biennale-2016-reporting-from-the-front.

"Frank Gehry Claims Today's Architecture Is (Mostly)." ArchDaily. 2014. Accessed May 07, 2016. http://www.archdaily.com/560673/frank-gehry-claims-today-s-architecture-is-mostly-pure-shit/.

"A Radical New Approach to Prison Design." ArchDaily. 2014. Accessed May 07, 2016. http://www.archdaily.com/464371/a-radical-new-approach-to-prison-design.

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18 one point perspective drawings:

6 two points perspective drawings:

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36 custom textures

3 chosen textures:

Moving Element 1

Moving Element 2

Moving Element 3

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2 images of draft model

1. The 'moving wall/roof' on the Studios and Workshops area will be able to move from one side to the other, functioning as a shading device and also as energy source - with the addition of solar panels - for the self-sufficient building.

2. The 'spinning lecture theatre' provides a continuously changing view and natural illumination

(shown below in final model).

3. The 'spinning entrances' (3) purpose is, mainly, an embellishment and distinguishing feature of the bridge, but also it privileges the students who live in the bridge's college, for they have a private entrance (green).  

MOVING ELEMENTS VIDEO

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Further developed model (plan+sections) with textures applied:

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5 images of developed model

This is the I.DCXVIII BRIDGE. This name derives from the inspirational plane - Paladio's Villa Rotonda - all based on the Golden Ratio. The roman number is 1.618, the golden number.

Everything in, on, at this building is somehow related to the golden ratio. All rectangles are golden sections - or the combination of two. All depths, widths and lengths of the main structures (library, lecture hall, gallery and so on) are a variety of the Golden number: 1.618.

The pressure applied on the skylights, the spacing between the balustrades of the white path. the roof elevation, and specially the plans of every facility obeys the Golden Ratio.

The moving shading device - which also works as energy supply once added solar panels - is seen at sunrise and sunset, respectively.

The bridge is connecting the Square House to both New College Village (supporting my theory of a school combined with student accommodation) and to the UNSW Global building.

The bridge consists on blocks in multiple levels all connected through this white path (or the glass path in regards to the gallery). This difference in levels enabled the implementation of various facilities within a thin delimited space.

The three elevators - inside the spinning entrances - are shown in this image. Accessing the: college (further right), offices (second right to left) and the gallery (left).

The bridge also provides shading for pedestrians in Anzac parade and students who may be walking on the white path seen on the top of the image.

From this perspective, the bridge within the bridge - connecting the gallery and the library - appears on the first plane. Here we observe the intriguing shapes formed by the skylights, all obeying the Golden Number (1.618), from pressure being applied and divisions of the surface. 

During sunset, the studio's shading device is now on west. 

e The lecture hall and its view to the library, studios, offices and the CBD further north. This rotational theater provides the students different view, and inspire the movement and dynamic of architecture, who is never static, but always changing.

(in this picture I removed the glass ceiling because I dot have lumion pro, and couldn't apply the glass texture.) 

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3D Warehouse

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