Interiors, Santa, Harmony

Studio 360 | Mar 16, 2011

Studio 360 plays around with harmony. Kurt Andersen and the jazz pianist Fred Hersch explore what makes a cluster of notes satisfying, or disturbing. They look at how harmony extends to colors in a Van Gogh painting and to the vaulted interior of a church. Also, in Design for the Real World—how Santa Clause divides his time between mythic figure and marketing tool.

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