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…:::…more on the space between, on the fully empty moments when one thing happens and the next begins. more on reason and why. more on social conscious in design. more on timing and reception…

after the bombing of the world trade center towers, when all everyone could talk about constructing, lebbeus woods was thinking about what falling meant. in 2004 he published, the storm and the fall that collected his thoughts and work that suddenly had more meaning in the context of world events. here is a blurb from the princeton architectural press which published the book:

By any measure, Lebbeus Woods is one of the most original architects working today. His body of theoretical work focuses on buildings of crisis, whether marred by major earthquakes, suffering the effects of economic embargo, or damaged by war. Since the destruction of the World Trade Center, his designs have taken on new meaning and significance. In The Storm and the Fall, Woods brings his visions to a new depth, moving them from feverishly rendered drawings to three-dimensional space.

The book focuses on two recent Woods installations—one at the Houghton Gallery at New York's Cooper Union, the other at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris that address the role of today's architecture. The Storm critiques the geometric box that rules most building designs and proposes instead a dynamic field of potential energy, represented by a complex array of vectors. The Fall crystallizes a built space in the midst of collapse, witnessing a moment too brief to inhabit—except in imagination. Both pieces are explored in Woods's powerful sketches, renderings, models, and constructions, exposing the mutations that enable them to be. A postscript of his hopeful design for a new World Center relates even more of his ideas.

Lebbeus Wood is author of many books including Radical Reconstruction. He lives in New York City.

and what does that mean for sound? is there a moment where the transition (from one note or beat to the next) that is so often lost in brevity can be captured? and if so, what does that empty breath sound like? how much movement does silence, static, stillness create in anticipation alone?

...the music, in two by two’s…the links are still not loading the file extension, so add mp3 when downloading. any thoughts on how to resolve this issue would be welcome. sorry for the inconvenience...:::…

scsi 9 (anton kubikov & maxim milutenko, snooker boy)

scsi 9 – wild flowers (tom clark remix) : apr 2006 on highgrade records
scsi 9 – too many gates : apr 2006 on highgrade records

luciano (lucien nicolet, lucien-n-luciano, nicol et lucien)

luciano & nsi – clara ghavami (extended mix) : mar 2006 on cadenza
quenum & luciano – funky dandy : jan 2006 on cadenza

rekid (dj maxi, matt edwards, matthew e, radio slave)

chicken lips – motion sickness (rekid remix) : may 2006 on adrift records
tommie sunshine & marc romboy – body jack (radio slave remix) : jun 2006 on systematic

sasse (cocamoto exclusive, freestyle man, klas lindblad, morris brown, sassomatic, thiesty monk, Winston fletcher

rekleiner – somewhere (sasse remix) : may 2006 on mood music records
sasse feat malte – up to you : may 2006 on mood music recordings

theorem (dale lawrence)

theorem & swayzak – devil of rotations : may 2006 on k7! records
sutekh & theorem – socius : jan 2006 on minus

someone else (sean o'neal)

i have a few links up from last week still (see monday, july 10), and if you like what you hear, head over to chantilly base for a few more tracks. definitely worth it.

…and to round it off oddly in an even way…

the modernist – spex 72 (the great defender remix – john harten & popnoname) : may 2006 on c/o pop
dj slip – everytime it takes awhile (falko broksieper remix) : feb 2006 on sub static