- About Christopher Janney by: *Sir George Guy Martin* Having spent an entire lifetime involved in music in one form or another, I guess it is natural for me to believe that it is the most sublime of all the arts—the most mysterious, the most primitive, the nearest to the soul. It can touch the heart in a way that nothing else can. But that does not mean that music is without design. Design is at the very heart of the universe, and man is at his finest when he uses his intelligence to design great works. I have always thought that music is closely linked with sculpture, the art of space, and this is just a short step to the ingenuity of architecture, so that one can feel the solidity of form in music and explore its spaces as one might run one’s hands over a sculpture by Henry Moore. Nowadays, one is able to listen to a great deal of good music and to see fine buildings. However, I have to admit that I have all too often heard deadly monotonous musical works that for sheer ugliness rival some of the vast slabs of concrete blocks that may be found in the worst of our urban areas. Conversely, in the golden age of music, when Bach wrote his glorious St. Matthew Passion—surely one of the greatest compositions ever conceived— he was designing a towering cathedral of sound, carving intricate designs along soaring pillars that reached out for God himself. And Bach did it all without the help of computers, synthesizers, or electronic aids. Christopher Janney is an extraordinary man. His designs—whether they are for a university or a beach house, an airport concourse or a plain dining table—are always a revelation. He straddles the worlds of architecture and music as though they comprise a single sphere. His inventive and restless mind is con- tinually searching for—and finding—new ideas and experiences. In our scary high-tech age, he has been able to sup with the devil and yet use, for the good, aspects of modern technology that many of us find bewildering. He is, without doubt, a twenty-first-century man, whose curiosity knows no bounds, and he can be relied upon to surprise and delight us with his work. Visit -> janneysound (y)
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