建筑、情绪与音乐

Architecture,Mood and Music

笔者利用心理学理论来论证音乐比建筑更能主导情感或心绪。论文从人们表达威胁或喜悦的那种对声音的迅速反应出发,将论述扩展至音乐如何影响人的期待。然而,本文也许只能揭示音乐与建筑的一部分与情感相关的潜能。马丁,海德格尔现象显示出这种体验层级的逆转。情感体验始于对世界的期待。建筑擅长创造一种期待的环境、一种氛围,也就是一种情绪,以及操作一段音乐上的不同时间维度。笔者以这种挑衅的观点结尾,为了使建筑唤密密集的情感体验,而这又需要回到如何聆听一段音乐。

I draw on psychological theory to suggest that music makes greater claims on the emotions than architecture.The story begins with people＇s immediate responses to sounds as indications of threats and pleasures,and progresses to the role of musical sounds in influencing our expectations.I suggest that this narrative only accounts in part for the emotional potency of music and architecture.The phenomenology of Martin Heidegger would suggest a reversal of this experiential hierarchy.Emotional experience starts with expectations about the world.Architecture is good at creating a climate of expectations,an atmosphere,i.e.a mood,and operates over different time scales to a piece of music.I end with the provocative thought that in order for architecture to invoke intense emotional experiences it would need to replicate what it＇s like to listen to a piece of music.