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These diferent words of architectural Gesign, geometry and sual design all share a core dea that can be summarized by 2 quote rom Mandelbrot: "Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, ‘which ae repeated without end” In other words fyou start with abasic shape and abasc ult transform by repeating the same mealfcation over and over, youll end up with very complex and unique shapes, ‘Theidea of shapes andcalculating with shapes stayed with me when moved on tobeing a performer asa planst As amusician| was ntiguedt find an equivalent of mathematical shapesin music T explore this son, conducted a research itled"Musie Design Stuy at Prins Claus Conservatorium (2014, Groningen) Te research was focused on mocifying the architectural design studio cls forthe use of improvising musicians It was based on gestalt basi design principals, abstraction and the principals af shape grammars. The idea was to connec the mutual terminology of music and vial ats such spatter, textures, hierarchy, Unity, contrast ythm, repetition, proximity, balance and space, Te practical pat ofthe studio was going out ito the city (a s common practice in various architecture school nding an object. abllding, shape or an art product as inspiration and capturing its essence I took the concept ofthe design stud a a pont of departure and tured towards amore visual method for representing organized sounds: raphle notations or ‘musleographles, aterm that quite aut of fashion that Ike to use. With a group of dedicated musilans, engineers and designers, thavebeen tylngte develop ‘sual languages te construct musicographics, using the principles of Mandelbrot, scher and Stiny Murat A cengiemusicographics Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), an institute for design and digital culture, has celebrate the 100th yer anniversary ofthe Bauhaus design school Stating in the Spring of 2019, exactly 100 years after the foundation of Bauhaus, Het New naituut transformed into Neuhaus institute’ for mor: than-human knowledge. Fora period of four months, this ever-evolving learning environment took over the institution, occupying and transforming its existing buling and facies, ‘edding new ones, and opening them up to co-reate, o-oWn, share and perform the Neuhaus progranme of more-than human knoe Under the umbella ofthe Neuhaus" the “Musicographics of Architecture” project aimed to jon together the bult design envionment with musicians and ‘designers eating an “Exhibition of Musielans™ by using the building Ise as music notation,“The source of our inpitation forthe Neuhaus program came fom the Bauhaus teachings of Wassily Kandinsky, Kandinsky, himself has translated music as well as dance and movement into graphic scores to teach basi design at Bauhaus, Dessau In the proces of"An Exhibition of Musicians” we tied to use the vial weight andthe visual cues ofthe architectural space to create our own graphic scores, “musicographics, The concert was organized asa guided musical exhibition tour here the audience woud follow the musicians around the bulding to discover architectural spaces with unique acoustic and vial attributes, ‘The project was cated out by a team of professional international muscans: Wes Voermans (NL, Murat ll Cengl(TR), Johannes Fen (A) ise Ozkurt (TR), Roberto Pistles|(,tdogan Cem Evin (TR) and fimed into a documentary by ideo artist Adem Gumkciee.Forthe fourth ime AIR, Rotterdam Festivals and Rotterdam Partners co ntate the Rotterdam Architecture Month (2019).The former Postkantoor POST, was the beating heart of AMIS POST podium. A the hosptalty of Omnam Group, profesionals, the publc and national-and intematonal press were invited to enjoy the grand hall once more asa beehive of activities, POST padium presente a wide variety of daily activities that have been setup in cllaboration withthe Municipality of Rotterdam, AFFR(Rottrdam Architecture Fm Festival, Dependance Debates, Urban Guides, Rotterdam Late Night and the Dutch Fund fr Creative Industes. As the "Musicographies" projec, We were commissioned by OMI Office fr Metropoltan information, to creat a performance atthe POS podium,The performance was composed by Murat Al Cengiz (TR). Developed asa graphic notation, musicographlc the music was based onthe mosaic prominent throughout the building. The piece was composed fr solo contrabass ad performed by Johannes Fed (An the location, sing the acoustis present "Musicographics project was also presented by its founder Murat Al Cengiz asa talk before the performance event Forthe two-part short move filmed by Adem Gam 0kcdlr please fll the inks below‘Automata isa collective founded by Murat Al Cengi (2018), consisting of improvising musians ad designers that work together to create conceptual graphic scores and musial compositions, aims to create a structured language for an interdcplinary dialog between designers and musicians based onthe universal language of design principles and shape grammars. The cllecive currently consists of members coming from highly Intrdscpinay backgrounds: founder and leader: musician/architect Murat All Cengl, Funda Yidtim (Cognitive Scents, Exdogan Cem Evin musician/computer engine, musician Glseppe Doranz> (baritone saxophone) and architect Efe Kagan Ha. The Collective was a part ofthe ath istanbul Design Biennial (2018) with an installation: sculpture made by architect Efe Kagan Hizar which was then used by composer Murat Al Cenglzas source fora sting quartet plece named Crs:links & resources httpz/wwwzmusicographics.com forall updates, blog and contac information ‘ticle:"Musicograte van Architectur" Gr Dutch 2019) by Murat AllCenglatthe Forum+ magazine Aticle:"Aomats (Turkish, 2019) atthe YAP magazine ooste*Musicographics" at the Neuhaus program, Het Niauwe Instituut, Rotterdam “alk by Murat AllCengi at Blennile Veneta, 2016, a the Turkish pavillion "Vary.