Music and Architecture

This relates a bit to my article about architecture and music. Recently, I had another mini-epiphany, music is like architecture in that it can surround us. Thinking of each art form as only the way in which we perceive the world through our five senses. Music can be heard, architecture can be seen. Both can be felt, through the beats of drums or the shrill of a piccolo, similarly to the texture of glass or stone. We can ignore each similarly because we are inundated with both at times and they overwhelm our sense of hearing or vision. The clarity or fidelity is ruined in the jumble of mixed messages at a loud night club or a busy suburban strip mall, or even downtown where all of our senses are abused. As an art form the two can have similar rhythms, proportions, and scales, but before we as humans learn to appreciate these tones or masses by educated listening or looking, we hear or see with an untrained sensory system that functions by instinct.