Aural Architecture

I recently read an article about a newly dubbed architectural movement that completely romanced me:   “Aural Architecture”. I’ve always been fascinated by interior design, carpentry, lines, fabrics, space, functionality, beauty… and recently, having lost my home and perpetually on tour, I am a ship in strange waters, sleeping with lent duvets in friends’ kitchens, grateful yet starting to tire of dirty teapots, unfamiliar carpets, and other peoples’ Tivos.  I, Morgan Kibby, am currently homeless.  And when you’re homeless, all you do is dream through frustration about a quiet place.  A space to call your own where you can finally just fucking breathe a full inhale exhale.  No fear, no alarms that aren’t yours,  just peace.  I’ve never had my own space, and so I’ve fallen back in love with design as this tour winds down, with the endless possibilities of where I will end up and what incredibile “space” adventure I can finally call mine and mine alone.

As an extension of my re-kindled love affair with design, I’ve also discovered quite a new passion: architecture.  I’ve always been a lover of the greats: Wright, Gehry, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe….  But I’ve never really sat and truly THOUGHT about architecture.  The way it defines every aspect of how we interact with the physical world, with the people around us, how we eat, how we react to loneliness, celebration, birth even!   As a musician, this seems ludicrous: I’ve truly never taken any time to examine my environment.  Everything from gravel on a walkway signaling a guest’s arrival to a dinner to a “nightingale floor” designed to gently warn medieval japanese castle dwellers of an enemy approach.  The aspects of design that give off a subtle genius are all of a sudden completely fascinating to me.  And I look forward to designing a studio space and home reflective of this new found passion. Below is a video of John Storyk, an “aural architect” if you will.  He started me on this journey and I cannot wait to dive into more about him and his work.  Peter Zumthor is also someone I look forward to learning more about, and I plan on reading his “Thinking Architecture” in the very near future…

To finding new spaces and celebrating new places. xm

SoundWorks Collection: Architect and Acoustician John Storyk from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.