Hyphen New Series Hyphen Press is a small and distinguished publishing house best known for its titles on typography, design and architecture. Last year Polimekanos started a co-operation with the founder of Hyphen, Robin Kinross, co-inciding with the publisher's effort to bring its current programme in context with a wider cultural field and new disciplines under the title Hyphen New Series. The first title in this new series was Morton Feldman Says: selected interviews and lectures 1964–1987, a publication initiated by Polimekanos and the book's editor, Chris Villars, in 2004. (see the book | more about the title | images from the launch event at Conway Hall). A translation of Otto Friedrich Bollnow's seminal text Mensch und Raum [Man and Space] with an introduction by Joseph Kohlmaier is planned for late 2006/2007; further titles are in discussion. Sound and Architecture In 2005, Polimekanos started a small research project into the immediacy of architectural perception and its relation to sound. The aim is to produce a series of documentaries in which the voice of a narrator, who is recorded as he experiences a building or a place, and ambient sounds on location form two layers which are merged into a composition using simple sound editing means. Indeterminate and Strage, the pilot project in the series, was
recorded at St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London with Prof.
Robert Harbison as part of a postgraduate programme at the Department
of Architecture and Spatial Design. The sound engineer was Andrew
Halifax. (see images from
the recording).
About St Stephen Walbrook The first Saxon church of St. Stephen (700 A.D.) is believed to have been built on the foundations of a Roman temple dedicated to Mithras, on the bank of the tributary of the Thames called the Walbrook. A Gothic church, sited higher up on the eastern bank, replaced the Saxon original in the early 15th century but was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. St. Stephen was re-built according to a design by Christopher Wren in 1672–80. The interior of St. Stephen's has been described as the most perfectly proportioned in the world. Click here for more information about the Church. -- Right: Debora Petrina rehearsing at the book launch of Morton Feldman says
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