Optophono: the record conceived as a meeting point between sonic imaginations

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Notes

1. https://www.optophono.com.

2. http://music.britishcouncil.org/projects/brian-eno-77-million-paintings-in-sarajevo.

3. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bloom/id292792586?mt=8; https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/scape/id506703636?mt=8; https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/trope/id312164495?mt=8.

4. https://biophiliaeducational.org.

5. The Apple app store was launched in 2008; https://www.laweekly.com/music/broken-mirror-2134584.

6. http://www.akirarabelais.com/o/software/al.html.

7. Ouzounian, Gasica. “Music for Sleeping and Waking Minds.” Programme notes for Music for Sleeping and Waking Minds. New York: Diapason Gallery, 4–5 June 2011.

8. Cardew, Cornelius. The Great Learning. The first chapter of the Confucian classic with music in 7 paragraphs. London: Experimental Music Catalogue, 1971.

9. The cards are designed by Tom Hughes and were inspired by Josef Albers’ Interaction of Colour (1970).

10. http://matildemeireles.com.

11. https://www.optophono.com.

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Ruth Bernatek

Ruth Bernatek is a PhD candidate in Architectural History & Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her research addresses the complex relationships between music and architecture in the “Polytope Projects” (1967–1978), a series of large-scale multimedia installations conceived by the composer and architect Iannis Xenakis. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to research, she draws upon her academic background in Art History and musical training. Ruth is co-founder of Sound Making Space, a Bartlett Doctoral Initiative based at the School of Architecture. Her PhD is funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership and has been generously supported by a Bartlett-CCA Research Collection Grant.