Issue #12 is out now!

#newsletter #intentionalcommunity #substack #commune #thefarm #midwifery #inamaygaskin

Coming up this week at Building Songs: origin points! Everyone and everything has got one. Mine just so happens to be The Farm, an intentional community in Tennessee founded in 1971. The newsletter drops Friday!

open.substack.com/pub/bribarte...

#thefarm #commune #worldbuilding

Issue #11 is out now!

Coming up this week at Building Songs: I discuss how the creative process triggers the subconscious mind. It is almost like the act of creating opens a portal to another dimension. Writers sometimes call this phenomenon the “leap”. The newsletter drops Friday!
#substack #newsletter #architecture

Issue #10 is out! Join me as we dive into lyrical linework using one of my favorite songs: Fiona Apple’s “Valentine”. I drew the song using only linework earlier this year. Take a look:
#architecturaldrawing #spatialnarratives #fionaapple

Coming up this week at Building Songs... I’m an architect, so I draw professionally. I drew Fiona Apple’s “Valentine” earlier this year. Join me as I explore the song’s world building at the scale of of a valentine, a table, and a footprint.

#fionaapple #architecturaldrawing #spatialnarratives

Little Lost Records is a record store in Stafford Springs, CT run by owners Conor Ryan and Abbie Golec. They also author a Substack highlighting the hidden gems of the record world. I spoke with Conor about his store's design and his relationship with music. Read the interview here: #recordstores

Issue #8 is out! Join me at George Harrison’s estate, Friar Park, as we explore his song “Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp”.

It’s been my favorite song for years, and I hope you join me as we take a deep dive into Harrison’s songwriting. Let it roll!

We went to space and explored the spaceship Ikarie XB 1: the design, the narratives, and the world building. This spaceship has everything you could ever want: a butterfly piano, weird space food, and bikinis! Read more here:

#scifi #spaceships #architecture #newsletter #sciencefiction #scifigenre

I am hoping to write a newsletter about record stores, but I don’t have any personal connections. Do any of you own/work at/shop at a cool record store? Could you connect me with someone who I could interview for a piece on the architecture of record shops?

#recordstore #musicfeed #vinyl #records

In 2023, the University of Michigan's Graham Sustainability Institute published my report on sustainability and transportation in Pittsburg's Strip District.

You can read it here: graham.umich.edu/product/stri...

#openstreets #urbanism #urbanism+ #walkable #cardependency #bikebus #15minutecity

Normalize posting the messy sketches!
Normalize sharing your least favorite pieces!
Normalize creating art for vengeance by drawing your enemies in compromising positions with various farm equipment!
Normalize group critiques!

I launched my Substack, Building Songs, about a month ago, where I write about the intersection of music and design. I am glad this topic interests so many.

Last week's newsletter details my music residency in Kathmandu, Nepal, nine years ago. Which has informed much of my practice today.