#morphosis

Morphosis

Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), 2022

    Dear listener, I’ve been in a really dark mood lately, so open your mind REAL WIDE because this week’s music pick is a doozy. It’s kind of hard for me to explain this week’s act, because they’re weird as all shit, but I’ll try my best to summarize. There’s this dark wave group I’ve known for about a decade called Die Form, who were never big mostly because their music is widely deemed too disturbing for the mainstream. Despite being around since the late 1970′s and having a catalog that mostly centers around the spicy subjects of eroticism and death, I’ll bet this is the first time you’ve heard of them. Ain’t it? I’d be surprised if you have, as this performance act from France isn’t exactly as popular as, say, a similar group like Skinny Puppy. DF’s brand of coldwave and neo-classical electronics has always been very memorable to me, if for no other reason than they pushed boundaries in music in bizarre ways. Their tones are VERY dark, boasting unconventional electronic beats and effects that you CAN’T find anywhere else, and backed up since the late 1980′s by the booming and haunting voice of one Éliane P. This tune is by a country mile my favorite track of theirs, Morphosis from the 2006 album ExHuman, which interestingly was a counterpart and sequel to their 2004 album InHuman. It’s highly experimental, it’s kinda goth overall, and many of their latest albums contain less voice and more atmospherics for those who appreciate a little variety. Smash play and go down a rabbit hole that is both dangerous and, in some cases, very taboo, their most extreme topics including subjects like necrophilia... to name just one. This stuff may be too dark for you, or it could just tickle you in your audio no-no place... as it certainly does for me. Get out of that rigid comfort zone and enjoy something different for a change!

No, MBS, it’s not the Pyramids

Proposed Saudi megaproject of two parallel buildings 1,600 feet tall extending 75 miles. (Daily Mail) Mohammed bin Salman, son of Saudi Arabia’s king and the nation’s de facto ruler, has declared that the kingdom will construct a two buildings taller than the Empire State Building in a straight parallel line extending 75 miles from the Gulf of Aqaba into the mountainous desert, called the Mirror…

Morphosis es un despacho interdisciplinario de diseño que busca innovar con diseños icónicos y urbanos. Utilizan la forma para generar interiores ordenados/desordenados donde comunmente sobresalen formas en cuando al eje o a la escala. 

En el interior del centro internacional de conferencias del rio Yangtze Morphosis crea un espacio inmenso invadido por cubos grandes en la parte superior, a pasear de aparentar  no tener un orden se percibe una reticula gracias al descpiece en los muros blancos. 

En el edificio Federal de San Francisco generan un interior distinto donde el espacio se subdivide por distintos niveles, cada uno con una escala distinta. El volumen se siente piramidal intervenido en la parte superior por formas cuadradas que sobresalen del lado derecho, lo que le da movimiento. 

El Estudio RHE remodela trtes edificios históricos en Londres uniendolos con una cubierta en el nucleo entre los tres edificios se crea un hall con una ciclovia, parte de lo que unifica a los edificios son los volúmenes que se extruyen de las fachadas de cristal.

En el Allen Institute diseñado por Perkins+Will también se utilizan volúmenes sobresalientes hacia el interior, en este edificio los volúmenes son recubiertos con un acabado cerámico que sobre sale de los muros blancos, comunicándose con el muro del fondo que en lugar de generar un volumen enmarca un vacío.

CITAS

FOTO 1: Shuangyu, HAN. “Yangtze River International Conference Center / Morphosis Architects.” ArchDaily, 22 December 2021, https://www.archdaily.com/973870/yangtze-river-international-conference-center-morphosis-architects?ad_source=search&ad_medium=projects_tab. Accessed 28 November 2022.

FOTO 2: San Francisco Federal Building – Morphosis – Iwan Baan.” Iwan Baan, https://iwan.com/portfolio/morphosis-san-francisco-federal-building/#6060. Accessed 28 November 2022.

FOTO 3: Griffiths, Alyn. “Studio RHE creates "London's first cycle-in office."” Dezeen, 16 September 2015, https://www.dezeen.com/2015/09/16/studio-rhe-alphabeta-london-finsbury-circus-first-cycle-in-office/. Accessed 28 November 2022.

I made a flipbook last year in school and I decided to recreate it digitally. Please embrace the jank haha

“Morphosis in Icaria” _ 17.07.2022 _ SK

Παπαδάκη, Β. (επιμ) (2001). Αιγαίο: Εικόνα Και Ποίηση, Αθήνα: Τροχαλία, σελ. 222.