{"id":2341,"date":"2022-04-04T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/?page_id=2341"},"modified":"2022-04-04T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:53:44","slug":"collapsing-old-buildings-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/?page_id=2341","title":{"rendered":"Collapsing Old Buildings (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><strong><em>Collapsing Old Buildings<\/em> <\/strong>(2011), installation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChurchSt_7.047-for-Colllapsing-Old-Buildings-e1451570374573.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"902\" src=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChurchSt_7.047-for-Colllapsing-Old-Buildings-e1451570374573.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1527\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChurchSt_7.047-for-Colllapsing-Old-Buildings-e1451570374573.jpg 750w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChurchSt_7.047-for-Colllapsing-Old-Buildings-e1451570374573-166x200.jpg 166w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChurchSt_7.047-for-Colllapsing-Old-Buildings-e1451570374573-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A generative sound installation for Dublin Culture Night 2011, commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre as part of a programme of events to mark their 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Collapsing_Old_Buildings-CMCpreview-4451.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece was installed in the stairwell of the Contemporary Music Centre\u2019s building in Fishamble Street, Dublin, next to the former site of the Fishamble Street Music Hall where Handel\u2019s Messiah received its premiere in 1742. The piece\u2019s programmatic concept traces a connection between Handel\u2019s visit and the boom-time milieu of Georgian Dublin and the subsequent history of the built environment left over from this boom. The city underwent a massive expansion of population and economic development during this period, followed by over a century of dramatic decline, with impressive eighteenth-century townhouses becoming subdivided into tenement flats which became some of the worst slums in Western Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The microtonal structures generated by the piece\u2019s processes thus possess a metaphorical connection with this long, slow collapse, with the impressive edifice of eighteenth-century harmony undergoing a process of microtonal subdivision. The sonic material for the piece is derived from a cadential sample from the 1916 Edison recording of the \u2018Hallelujah Chorus\u2019 in Messiah was spectrally processed and underwent a simple cyclical process in the Max environment (Cycling 74) whereby 27 instances of the recording were offset in pitch and time modulating upwards by a major third and downwards by a perfect fourth (themselves prominent intervals in the piece\u2019s figuration), creating a dense \u2018collapsing\u2019 peal of bell-like microtonal materials descending at the start of the piece, followed by repeated cadential phrases which are microtonally offset through this process of repeated modulation. The process proceeds for up to a maximum of 1742 seconds before repeating (although this is determined by the specification of the piece, not by the materials coming back into their initial alignment).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Collapsing-old-buildings-speaker-positions-diagram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Collapsing-old-buildings-speaker-positions-diagram-723x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Collapsing-old-buildings-speaker-positions-diagram-723x1024.jpg 723w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Collapsing-old-buildings-speaker-positions-diagram-141x200.jpg 141w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Collapsing-old-buildings-speaker-positions-diagram-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Collapsing-old-buildings-speaker-positions-diagram-768x1087.jpg 768w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Collapsing-old-buildings-speaker-positions-diagram-1080x1529.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Collapsing-old-buildings-speaker-positions-diagram.jpg 1239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collapsing Old Buildings (2011), installation A generative sound installation for Dublin Culture Night 2011, commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre as part of a programme of events to mark their 25th anniversary. The piece was installed in the stairwell of the Contemporary Music Centre\u2019s building in Fishamble Street, Dublin, next to the former site of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/?page_id=2341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Collapsing Old Buildings (2011)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2341\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}