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Volume 32, Number 2, pages 181-184 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2021_2_181
CONSTRUCTING HARMONY WITHOUT A SOUND
Nina Chen*
* Snowray Design, 345 N LaSalle Drive #3008, Chicago, IL, 60654, U.S.A.
E-mail: snowraydesign@gmail.com
Web: www.snowraydesign.com
Abstract: What is harmony? Music, the intangible, eternal thing which moves human souls like nothing else, which people depend on daily for solace, joy and everything in between, obviously cannot exist without it. In 1829, the polymath J. W. von Goethe stated, “Music is liquid architecture. Architecture is frozen music”. Those of us engaged in the visual arts and architecture may begin to wonder. Is it possible to construct harmony through form? This project examines the roots of harmony and explores geometric methods to investigate the potential of bringing truth to Goethe’s words.
References:
Boethius (1989) Fundamentals of Music. New Haven: Yale University Press, 205 pp.
Nicomachus of Gerasa (1938) Introduction to Arithmetic. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 326 pp.
Plato (1989) Plato in Twelve Volumes. Vol. 9. 8th Ed., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 656 pp.
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