2 members of Bang on a Can All-Stars speak about music's affect on public space

Which came first - the music or the space?

Two members of the group known as Bang on a Can All-stars spoke to a group of about 40 UA students, staff and faculty yesterday night on this very topic in the lobby of the Architecture building known as the Centrum.

Mark Stewart and Evan Ziporyn discussed not only different aspects of the group's music but also the role music plays in shaping a public space.

"The public space is important to us as performers. We spend so much of our lives in manufactured spaces," Ziporyn said. "The sonic component (of a space) is just as structured as a structure of space but nobody's given it thought."