Music and sound capabilities of Barnaul relief (by example of sculptural decoration of facade of House of Altai Mining District Chef)

In this paper we propose a new approach to analyzing landscape-cultural elements, which could eventually lead to the creation of music and sound model of a place, a city, a region. A synthetic route contributes to creating a complete picture of sites. It is based on selection of the main features for characterization in order to achieve the integrity of its perception, and personalization features, that is, the absence of any scheme. Creation of such features should be based on information selection to describe the locations selected subjectively by each observer and the dominants (symbols) for each individual site and their further possible combination through internal and external textual means. The main final goal, which regulates the semantic content of the site features, should not be completeness, but integrity. That is why we have a right to talk about the selection of features rather than their ordering. The selection process is subjective, therefore, another feature of this complex is the multiplicity of geographical features. The most obvious elements of the cultural landscape of the city are monuments. They, to a greater extent, determine the look of the place, its specificity. An important role in the look of the place are style forming sculptural elements, organizing and decorating the facades of buildings. Sculptural reliefs of Barnaul have a number of common features that suggest the formation of a peculiar shape of the city. Among them is a symmetric dominant organizational structure. Statement of the problem of order and symmetry with respect to any kind of human activity dates back to the objective laws of the universe, the essence of which is rooted in the constant balance between the creative rhythm of the universe and the forces seeking to disrupt the order, to plunge it again into its original state. Such objectivity is observed only in music, so musical sound analysis of the sculptural decoration of the House of the Chief of the Altai Mining District of Barnaul, a high relief in the attic, is possible. Basing on the concept of ornament outlined by Ye.V. Sintsov, the author comes to the music and sound characteristics of all other sculptural elements that adorn the facade of the building, and change the understanding of this landscape-element. Thus comes an obvious conclusion, which consists in the fact that the possibilities of sculptural reliefs are greater than it is commonly believed, from a purely decorative function to the function of creating a special meta-space, promotion of various games with the spatial characteristics, which inevitably entail different kinds of terrain modelling culture.

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