Lebenslauf

Michael Fowler’s research interests centre on the intersection between electro-acoustic music, architecture and landscape architecture. By utilising Barry Blesser’s notion of ‘aural architecture’ as an interrogative lens, Fowler has explored a number of theoretical, analytical and creative projects that locate exemplars of auditory design through inherent deep-level structural conditions. His investigations are interdisciplinary and subsequently utilise diverse methodologies drawn from soundscape studies, architectural modeling, semiotics, music theory and information science. Projects have included sound installations and performances in China, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico and Germany. His current research project, Designing soundscape architectures for urban environments is an investigation into the connection between qualities of soundsape and landscape within the traditional Japanese garden as a design paradigm for the future built environment

Projekte

Publikationen

Fowler, Michael. "Reading John Cage's Variations III as a process for generating proto-architectural form," Leonardo: Art Science Technology 44 (forthcoming 2011).

Fowler, Michael. "On Listening in a Future City," Grey Room 42 (Winter 2011): 22-45.

Fowler, Michael. "Becoming the Synthifou: Stockhausen and the New Keyboardism." Tempo 65/255 (January 2011): 2-8. 

Magen, A. and Fowler, M. (2010): Soniferous City: auditory awareness in landscape architecture. Ideologies and Ethics in the Uses and Abuses of Sound at University of Eastern Finland, Koli, Finland, June 16-19 2010.

Fowler, Michael. "The Ephemeral Architecture of Stockhausen's Pole für 2," Organised Sound 15/3 (October 2010): 185-197. 

Fowler, Michael. "Mapping Sound-Space: the Japanese Garden as Auditory Model," Architectural Research Quarterly 14/1 (March 2010): 63-70. 

Fowler, Michael. "Finding Cage at Ryoanji through a re-modeling of Variations II." Perspectives of New Music Vol. 47/1 (Winter 2009): 174-191. 

Knueppel, G. and Fowler, M. (2009): Choreographies of Inhabitation: an investigation into visual, auditory and spatial relationships. Occupation: Negotiations with Constructed Space at University of Brighton, UK, July 2-4 2009. 

Fowler, Michael. "The city as soundscape laboratory," in notions of space, ed. Rochus Hinkel, (Melbourne: Craft Victoria): 8-12, 2008.

Fowler, Michael. "Shin-Ryoanji: a digital garden," Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, Vol. 8/1 (Fall/Winter 2008): 33-36.

Fowler, Michael. "FUR KOMMENDE ZEITEN: farewell to the 20th Century," The OPEN SPACE, Issue 10 (Fall 2008): 104-105. 

Fowler, Michael. "3 views of Sesshutei." The OPEN SPACE, Issue 10 (Fall 2008): 25-33.

Fowler, Michael. “3 Translations of O.” Perspectives of New Music Vol. 43/2-44/1 (Summer 2005/Winter 2006): 299-313. 

Fowler, Michael. “Textscape-Landscape.” The OPEN SPACE Issue 7 (Winter 2006): 63-66.

Fowler, M. and Harvey, L. (2006). "Teimu (the garden of dreams): aural and aesthetic atrributes of Japanese gardens as models for spatial environments," in The West meets the East in Acoustic Ecology, ed. Tadahiko Imada, Kozo Hiramatsu and Keiko Torigoe. Hirosaki, Japan: Hirosaki University, 2006, 147-165.

Fowler, M., Harvey, L. and Murray, N. (2006): Ephemeral envelopment: the electroacoustic music Studio in a school of spatial studies. Architecture|Music|Acoustics Conference at Ryerson University, Canada, June 2006 (CD ROM).