MNI: Motorway Notation Network

In his essay, Anti-Object, Kengo Kuma proposes that architecture cannot and should not be understood as object alone but instead always as series of networks and connections, relationships within space and through form. Some of these relationships are tangible, others are invisible. Stan Allen and James Corner have also called for an architecture that is more performative and operative – ‘less concerned with what buildings look like and more concerned with what they do’ – as means of effecting a more intimate and promiscuous relationship between infrastructure, urbanism and buildings. According to Allen this expanding filed offers a reclamation of some of the areas ceded by architecture following disciplinary specialization:

‘Territory, communication and speed are properly infrastructural problems and architecture as a discipline has developed specific technical means to deal with these variables. Mapping, projection, calculation, notation and visualization are among architecture’s traditional tools for operating at the very large scale’.

The motorway may not look like it – partly because we are no longer accustomed to think about it as such – but it is a site for and of architecture, a territory where architecture can be critical and active. If the limits of the discipline have narrowed, then one of the functions of a school of architecture must be an attempt occupy those areas of the built environment where architecture is no longer, or has yet to reach. If this is a project about reclamation of a landscape, it is also a challenge to some of the boundaries that surround architecture and often confine it, as Kuma suggests, to the appreciation of isolated objects.

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We tend to think of the motorway as a thing or an object, something that has a singular function. Historically this is how it has been seen, with engineers designing bridges and embankments and suchlike with zeal … These objects like the M3 Urban Motorway, Belfast’s own Westway, are beautiful of course, but they have caused considerable damage to the city they were inflicted upon.

Actually, it’s the fact that we have seen the motorway as a solid object that has caused this problem. The motorway actually is a fluid and dynamic thing, and it should be seen as such: in fact it’s not an organ at all but actually tissue – something that connects rather than is. Once we start to see the motorway as tissue, it opens up new propositions about what the motorway is, is used for and does. This new dynamic and connective view unlocks the stasis of the motorway as edifice, and allows adaptation to happen: adaptation to old contexts that were ignored by the planners, and adaptation to new contexts that have arisen because of or in spite of our best efforts.

Motorways as tissue are more than just infrastructures: they are landscapes. These landscapes can be seen as surfaces on which flows take place, not only of cars, buses and lorries, but also of the globalized goods carried and the lifestyles and mobilities enabled. Here the infinite speed of urban change of thought transcends the declared speed limit [70 mph] of the motorway, in that a consignment of bananas can cause soil erosion in Equador, or the delivery of a new iphone can unlock connections and ideas the world over.

So what is this new landscape to be like? It may be a parallax-shifting, cognitive looking glass; a drone scape of energy transformation; a collective farm, or maybe part of a hospital. But what’s for sure, is that it is never fixed nor static: it pulses like a heartbeat through that most bland of landscapes, the countryside. It transmits forces like a Caribbean hurricane creating surf on an Atlantic Storm Beach: alien forces that mutate and re-form these places screaming into new, unclear and unintended futures.

And this future is clear: the future is urban. In this small rural country, motorways as tissue have made the whole of it: countryside, mountain, sea and town, into one singular, homogenous and hyper-connected, generic city.

Goodbye, place. Hello, surface!

L'étude du cheminement de l'enfant de première année du primaire en regard de la conceptualisation des systèmes d'écritures alphabétique et musicale : perspectives parallèles

Considérant les difficultés que les jeunes éprouvent à entrer dans l'écrit et les nombreux bienfaits que la musique apporte à l'être humain, nous avons voulu explorer ce qu'ont en commun l'entrée dans l'écrit et l'apprentissage de la musique. Les deux modèles théoriques qui ont été retenus (Ferreiro, 2000; Upitis, 1992) nous permettent de comprendre que les enfants conceptualisent chacun des systèmes d'écriture en traversant quatre principaux niveaux. Pour connaître le niveau de conceptualisation des systèmes d'écritures alphabétique et musicale (SEA et SEM) et leur évolution en cours d'année scolaire, 32 sujets provenaient de classes régulières et 20 de classes spéciales (difficultés langagières), tous de premier cycle du primaire, ont passé un test à trois reprises (octobre, février et avril). Les résultats démontrent entre autres que les élèves qui sont plus avancés dans leur conceptualisation du SEA le sont également dans celle du SEM en début d'année scolaire.

Intervention musicale et concept de soi chez les jeunes de la rue

Les jeunes de la rue sont reconnus comme étant fragile [i.e. fragiles] dans leur identité qui les entraînent plus souvent qu'autrement à délaisser le monde de l'éducation et par la suite celui du travail. L'adaptation à la vie scolaire et professionnelle des jeunes de la rue passe entre autres par le développement d'un sentiment identitaire. Notre étude tente de comprendre comment contribuer au développement du concept de soi des jeunes de la rue par les arts. Pour y arriver, un cadre conceptuel double est utilisé, soit le modèle du concept de soi de l'Écuyer (1990) concernant le sentiment identitaire et l'art comme moyen d'intervention à partir des écrits de Vygotsky (1971). L'objectif général est de décrire la façon dont l'intervention musicale dans le projet Artifice agit sur le concept de soi, du point de vue des jeunes et de l'équipe d'intervention.

Soiree Musicale de Milhaud, January 9, 1992

Concert Program for Soiree Musicale de Milhaud, January 9, 1992

Notation timelines and the aesthetics of disappearance

Contemporary cities are frequently surrounded by transitional landscapes: ambiguous lands, non-places on the urban edge, commonly experienced under the condition of speed. Although variously shaped by processes of urbanisation, logistics of road engineering, safety and ownership, and local people's lives, for travellers such landscapes are usually perceived in a state of disappearance. This condition presents a major challenge for the traditional methods used in architecture and urban design. For designers interested in the organisation and design of such mobility routes for the engagement of the traveller, a method of scripting based on notation timelines would provide a helpful supplement to traditional master plans. This paper explores the development of such a method and its roots in time-based arts, such as dance, music and film, as well as in the recent history of architecture and urban design. It does so through the presentation of an experimental study based on a real route, the train journey from London to Stansted airport.

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La Renaissance musicale : revue hebdomadaire de critique, d'esthétique et d'histoire / directeur-gérant : Edmond Hippeau

Etat de collection : A1, n° 1 (6 mars 1881)-a3, n° 42 (20 oct. 1883)

La Renaissance musicale : revue hebdomadaire de critique, d'esthétique et d'histoire / directeur-gérant : Edmond Hippeau

1881/03/06 (A1,N1)-1881/12/25 (A1,N43).

La Renaissance musicale : revue hebdomadaire de critique, d'esthétique et d'histoire / directeur-gérant : Edmond Hippeau

1883/01/06 (A3,N1)-1883/10/20 (A3,N42).

Revue et gazette musicale de Paris

Variante(s) de titre : Gazette musicale de Paris

Revue et gazette musicale de Paris

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L'Union musicale (Paris. 1862)

Périodicité : Bimensuel

Tropaire-prosier à l'usage de Moissac, avec notation en neumes.

Provient de la bibliothèque du chanoine Morelot, de Dijon, et a été publié sous le titre de Tropaire-prosier de l'abbaye de Saint-Martin de Montauriol, par l'abbé C. Daux (Paris, 1901, in-8°) ; cf. l'art. du Rév. H. M. Bannister, dans la Revue d'histoire et de littérature religieuses (1903), t. VIII, p. 556 et suiv.