Saturday, October 20, 2007

It's all in the number 8: 1

This is our new house number.

Did you know that the number 8 is a Fibonacci number: 3+5?

The composer, Iannis Xenakis, wrote Metastasis for orchestra using the fibonacci series.

This piece of music then became the starting point for the Philips Pavilion constructed for the World Fair of 1958 in Brussels. This collaboration, with the architect Le Corbusier, was the first electronic/spacial performance to combine music, sound, images and architecture. The music for the pavilion was by Edgard Varèse. It, and the pavilion, was called Poème électronique.

I only know this because Lizzie wrote her dissertation on the Philips Pavilion for some degree or other and she says she has lots of photos and things in England. Apparently the actual experience inside the pavilion was found to be quite shocking at the time so, after the Fair had finished, the pavilion was pulled down.

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