Music as life

This late winter, I attended a symphony performance. Being a student of orchestra, high school, has lent me a certain appreciation of classical music and the performance being presented. In this regard, I was really looking forward to the concert. One of the pieces being performed was something most all of us recognize, if not the whole piece the first four notes: Beethoven's fifth.

The first half of the concert, though, were pieces I had not heard before. I spent my time, instead of reliving my playing this music, listening for recognition of specific instruments by sound, by tone, by timbre. At one point I got goose flesh from haunting wisps of sound from afar, the trumpet backstage. In large, I watched the ballet-like, synchronized movement of bows, each player still unique with their own creative sound but marching along in unison, tight tight syncopated stops and starts, extreme flows in crescendo and diminuendos (sic). It felt to me like a leaf on a flowing stream racing over rapids then swirling in eddy pools then casting into stagnant pools.

So with a body of knowledge about performance and a heart-felt appreciation of symphony and the complexities and games played within the music, between the players, over our ears, I was quite moved. I have a desire to exude that passion in my professional, career life too. Work is such a large consumption of our time it captures much of our thought and passion and energy. If I could make my work a passion versus an avocation, that would be amazing.

With all of the above in mind, I am considering Architecture as another career move: to know and understand legacy structure: form as function and form as art; to explore and exploit social structure and status, history of people and humanity through architecture; the development and advancement of people and societies as seen through changes, subtle to radical.

I feel that architecture could be an outlet for my creativity. It could be a means to put in to play my desire to have an impact on my environment in a bigger way than project by project, house by house, one client to another: less temporal and shallow. Longer term and a dive into the deep end of the pool. A brave action.

A means to take a theme, an idea, a form and create it then nurture it as it develops and advances. Watch it take different forms and work it's way down paths that work, that don't work. Nudging it along as I too grow and mature and discover things I didn't know I didn't know.

I don't know. Maybe. A great though for now as I continue to love my detailed finish work and press for sale of my project.