Sonic Flowers and String by George Koutsouris, as seen at Design Without Borders 2024, Budapest In 2023 a, if one so will, special edition of Design Without Borders was held at FUGA - Budapest Center of Architecture, which devoted itself to "sound objects", objects that deliberately emit sounds, can be made to emit sounds, but which aren't musical instruments, or at least not in the normally understood definitions of the term; sound objects that, in many regards, are also part of that
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"Why are the sounds we play in our apartments always music?" asked the Danish architect and designer Verner Panton, "aren't the sounds of a chicken farm, waves, the wind and many other things just as beautiful?"1 Questions that force one to question the difference between 'sounds' and 'music', but for all to question our relationships with the myriad 'noises' that accompany daily life. With the exhibition Sound Sources. Everything is Music! the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, provide a space
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Music was my first love, And it will be my last, Music of the future. And music of the past. confided to us all the English singer John Miles in 1976, and thereby both tending to confirm the fundamental place music has, has had, in human civilisations and societies, music as an ancient and eternal force in human civilisation and society, and also through setting the future before the past, a setting, yes, not unrelated to the requirements and provisions of the ancient laws of rhyme, most
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