Valenti Govantes/Contributing Writer
Eric Goldemberg is known for turning musical instruments in 3D printed works of art, along with intersecting architecture with augmented bodies.
He spoke at the March Mixtape Monday event, a Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum event that presents ideas from FIU faculty across disciplines using the museum’s collection.
Goldemberg is an Associate Professor in FIU’s Department of Architecture.
Many of the structures that he has created focus on two concepts: rhythms and the human form.
The structures that he has created have been featured internationally in countries such as Italy, Spain and Argentina. He has also collaborated on his projects with noted musicians such as Björk for a piezoelectric violin.
He has also written a book about his architectural techniques named “Pulsation in Architecture.”
Goldemberg began the discussion at the event by describing one of his projects for a recording arts center that was made using 3D printers and computer programs.
As he discussed this project, he emphasized the need to maintain a structural rhythm when conceptualizing and creating complex structures digitally.
“When we were working on the project, we began to focus on ideas of rhythm and human perception and how they can be addressed through digital textures,” said Goldemberg.
Images of the completed project that he worked on in his studio, “MONAD Studio,” were then displayed.
Goldemberg then proceeded to discuss several of his projects that focused on the incorporation of musical elements.
An example of this was a guitar he designed as part of a mural that had only one string but can still be played efficiently as demonstrated in a video that was shown.
“I do not have any capacity to play instruments, but this also motivates me to make them because I really love music, especially rock music,” said Goldemberg.
Lastly, Goldemberg discussed current projects that are in development such as a piano named “EXO” with the soundboard being developed in collaboration with a company named Blüthner.
“The piano is designed to be as transparent as possible to reveal the mechanisms of the instrument and ultimately be an exoskeleton to support said mechanisms,” said Goldemberg.
Additionally, he is also currently conceptualizing a structure that will be displayed in Lincoln Road, Miami Beach known as the “Wolfsonian Museum Pavilion.”
Although elements of the music form are present in his structures, it does not directly influence them.
“There is not a direct relation. Music influences in a spiritual way but there isn’t something directly, when thinking of the structure, that relates to elements of it,” said Goldemberg.
Despite this, Goldemberg stated that in projects that involve the collaboration of a musician the music form influences the final product.
“When we work with the composers in projects such as one I have developed for inside the FIU Jewish Museum, then music does influence the project in ways such as in the organization of the components in the project,” said Goldemberg.
Mixtape Mondays at the Frost Art Museum are held on the first Monday of the month during the Fall and Spring Semesters.
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