Marcos Novak, director of the Advanced Design Research Group at the University of Texas in Austin, is making buildings out of music, dance, and lyrics. He has developed an application to convert MIDI data into databases that can be used to create what he calls "liquid architecture." The virtual buildings offer new ways to navigate through a musical composition or explore the movements of a dance performance.
A recent project at Canada's Banff Centre for the Arts used the work of an architect, a dancer, and a musician as the data stream for Novak's program. The session generated five worlds (shown here), ranging from the realistic to the phantasmagorical. Marcos Novak: marcos@bongo.cc.utexas.edu.
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