Originally Posted by Sunset Poet
Originally Posted by Michael Zaneski
Marty,



Architecture seems fundamentally different than art, video, and music, in that it's more tied to various maths so it's no surprise that architecture software has become an invaluable tool for you (since "Math" is AI's middle name) while at the same time it's understandably making you worried that it might not end there.
Mike

Mike
I dont see this quite the same as you do.
The ancient quote is that architecture is frozen music. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder on that.

But Math wise, now that I am an intermediate-beginner using my DAW....TIME, BPM and subdivision of notes per measure, triplets and so on, looks resolutely mathematical to me.

The art or humanistic side of it appears to be stylistic expression and timbre, but now that AI can emulate Sinatra...that looks resolutely mathematical to me also.

Your thoughts?
Marty

Marty,

You are absoluely right with what you say here and it's my fault for not being clearer with that part of my response.

I meant to stress how the actual use of math is crucial to building rooms, layering floors, etc., and that math itself is (usually) more UP FRONT than with music and art. It's right there in the floor plans so that rooms will be built specifically to size.

When most folks create music or art, for instance, the math is usually just inherent in the making of it, such as when it's strumming a guitar or putting brush to canvas. The "math" is invisible. Music and art all follow mathamatical rules of sound and light, for sure, but those truths usually aren't conciously driving an artist's process.

An exception might by musicians who write using musical notation, ie sheet music.

Now, having said that, there are a minority of artists both visual and audio where the math is more up front. Especially the minimalists and post-minimalists.

But I just meant to state that the math is usually more up front and crucial with architecture. I should have been clearer why I thought that.

Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 02/22/23 03:10 PM.
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