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Music videos about buildings
Massive Attack / Tracy Thorn / Michael Gondry dir.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo8ixX6Wo
(if you can think of one, pasting the URL usually works)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo8ixX6Wo
(if you can think of one, pasting the URL usually works)
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I had a go on Montreal's Silophone myself on a recent Bruno Taut Institute fact finding mission to post-industrial sites in North America. Awesome. -
..and a musical tribute to Montreal by Da Gryptions. Their Bixi Anthem is also woth a listen. -
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This may be a song for Matthew Guy.
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More about materiality than a building per se,,
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I remember when Bernie Joyce came into the studio at 200 Latrobe Street in 1974 and told us, "Lou Kahn's dead." It was a sad moment which opened up a new world. I visited the Roosevelt 4 Freedoms Memorial and gave the mens room at Penn Station a nod as I passed through New York on the BTI Post Industrial tour.
The music recalls an epic King Crimson gig at Nervi's Palazzo Dello Sport in 1973. People setting fire to things, riot police ringing the stadium and 15,000 people surging into an underground station as the train came in after the concert. -
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Something from South America
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Montreal's Michelangelo of Morose, Leonard Cohen and his Secret Life at Habitat 67. With a Citroen DS as an extra.
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Loving these - I can imagine Philip Glass looking with interest at that 1975 New York one by Hardy & Hillary. It's Twilight Zone soundtrack doesn't quite do it justice.
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Thanks for the opportunity. There is a wealth of stuff on the internet and I've enjoyed finding these songs & videos. It really appeals to the OCD side of my nature. The Organism film by Hilary Harris was a particularly good one. I think the guy who edited it and set it to the CFCF Exercise #3 music probably felt the same way about the original soundtrack as you do. Those Twin Tower shadows had taken on a whole new meaning in the second version too. Ghosts.
Abhijeet Chavan quotes David Byrne on his Planetizen blog http://www.planetizen.com/node/47214 "if somebody could write a song about [city planning] I'd have to stand up and cheer for them. No. There are some things you just can't write songs about." and goes on to make a few suggestions.
Here's a contender by The Landlords, a couple of Australian faux rappers, who get into the relative planning merits of Canberra and the State capitals. A warning this video includes adult themes (depression and nostalgia for the past)sexual references and coarse language.
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Cairo Flats. A nice way to live in Melbourne set to a good old tune.
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Portland hipsters' Post Modern conservation conundrum.
http://archrecord.construction.com/yb/ar/article.aspx?story_id=193905880
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2014/01/should-portland-save-building-it-really-really-hates/8050/
Opinions divided on the building. Apparently everyone loves the Portlandia statue though.
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A 2009 post reflecting the sculpture good building bad side of the argument
By Archie Washington Art activism on behalf of a beloved icon. -
Enough of this angst...............let's go to the beach
In 2011 THE MEN from Sweden went to Australia for a festival gig and also played in the Pure Pop Records store, and hung around on the clubs and bars around St Kilda, Melbourne. With its relentless riff and honking sax, St Kilda Beach became the band's tribute to the area's laid-back and inviting atmosphere.
First single from new THE MEN-album 'This Way' Sept 2013!
Guest star: Sven Andersson on sax. -
Onetime student of architectural draughting, Ice Cube, celebrates the Eames House. -
Eero Saarinen joined the architects-with-songs-about-them pantheon as long ago as 2006. Got to love the St Louis Arch....even if it appears more Americans find it unimpressive than any other national monument according to BELT. http://www.beltstl.com/tag/eero-saarinen/
https://myspace.com/finnsmotel/music/song/eero-saarinen-43420322-46256165
Possibly the only lift car on an album cover in musical and architectural history.
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I'd told myself I wouldn't add any more songs.......and then along came Mies.
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...and Gropius.
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...Corb!!
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..and now, for a move from the ridiculous to the sublime:
dir/edit/script/prod: timo novotny
music: sofa surfers with dawna lee
SYNOPSIS:
A time lapse camera shot, within a continuos 24hr time circle, compressed to 4 min shows the daily life of a bar. The main figure is a female barkeeper screaming for a witness of love confession. It starts & ends at 9 am showing Europe's smallest bar, the American Bar in Vienna, built in 1908 by Adolf Loos.
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It's been a while but an Opera inspired by Louis Kahn is too good to pass up.
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