“The remix contest brought out a lot of amazing music architecture. Everyone that was a part of it was making cutting edge music architecture.” The relationship between music and architecture has progressed a lot since the 15th Century when Leon Battista Alberti, the Italian author, artist, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and architect proclaimed:

“We shall therefore borrow all our Rules for the Finishing our Proportions, from the Musicians, who are the greatest Masters of this Sort of Numbers, and from those Things wherein Nature shows herself most excellent and compleat.” Leon Battista Alberti (1407-1472)

Today music vs architecture is less about spatial proportion (representation), more about spatial intervention (experience). Blablablarchitecture has always privileged ‘talking buildings’ and therefore rap ‘music’ (recalling Chuck D has always said rap is about the word not the sound) with its speech dexterity, and hiphop, with its sonic sampling / appropriation / play-giarism, has often been on high rotation / Recently Played on the office i-Tunes beatbox.

The WHAT_architecture remix competition launched during Clerkenwell Design Week 2012 is thus a celebration of the world of referencing. Judging can be really hard but thanks to you, and public input via our website, we can choose the winners who, in the best electronic music traditions, add something particular to the original essence. The competition is sponsored by Adobe Photoshop. Or really ‘Phonoshop’TM where the process of making sound also influences image.

GALLERY OF ARCHITECTURAL RAPS:

1. NL_Architects vs Claus en Kaan:

2. FILIP DUJARDIN FICTIONS:

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