Frozen Music

In this new series for autumn on RTÉ Radio 1, Ellen Cranitch talks to six Irish architects who are also musicians.  Taking Goethe's famous quote, 'Architecture is frozen music', as a starting point, she explores the relationship between the art of architecture and the science of music.

Damon Albarn, from Blur, and Justine Frischmann, lead singer with Elastica, both trained as architects prior to their careers in music; Daniel Libeskind, who is designing the monument for the site of the World Trade Centre, and who submitted a proposal for the re-development of Carlisle Pier in Dún Laoghaire, trained to be a concert violinist; Simon Crowe, drummer with the Boomtown Rats, was an architect, while Iannis Xenakis, the renowned
Greek composer, was an architect who worked with Le Corbusier before devoting himself full time to composing.

The fact that so many architects are also very accomplished musicians raises questions as to whether the two arts occupy the same territory in the brain or if the non-tangible nature of music appeals particularly to the architect whose very business is to create structures for us to touch and see and live in?

Whats on the show??

Find out who and what will be featuring on the show.