I am a classically trained musician (guitar, trumpet, flute, other misc.) so I read music very well. I'm still very much new to lacemaking, but to make a relatively simple analogy - the pattern could easily be considered a score, and the various stitches required to make the various parts of the lace compared to the different values of notes, the number of stitches a form of subdivision?
I would also certainly argue that music making does require numeracy, especially reading music, but over time the math required to understand how to make music becomes deeply internalized and you don't generally consciously think about it. There are of course exceptions in exceptionally complex music, or music in an odd time signature, polyrhythmic music etc. Though outside of classical music, once you reach a certain level of mastery even these super complex forms are really felt more than rigorously counted. I would imagine this is the same with lacemaking? On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi < shg...@mail.harvard.edu> wrote: > I will raise my hand about music-making and needlework. I play Bach on a > string instrument, and to my mind, the patterns that make sense when > sight-reading musical counterpoint make the same intuitive rhythms in my > mind (internal ear? mind's eye?) as the growing symmetries and dissonances > of lace when looked at up close. > > I *also* have brain-based math learning disabilities, along with some other > neural challenges. Somehow reading non-syllabic writing systems are easy > for me, but numeracy demands some other cognitive effort. > > To be precise, then, I would say that the part of music-making, sight > reading counterpoint, being able to make sense of knitting and lace > notation, has to do with comfort with discrete intervals in relation to one > another -- nothing to do with numeracy as such. > > Hmmm I wonder if I agree with myself. Does numeracy -- that is, being able > to manipulate numbers -- include being able to slice intervals into smaller > bits? I'm thinking of how musicians think about note-value, that is, the > duration of each note, that is, a quarter note is one beat in 4/4 time, a > dotted quarter note is one and a half note, etc. > > If you are following me so far, what in lace making would correspond to > being able to execute note values in music-making? > > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 9:18 AM, David C Collyer <dccoll...@ncable.net.au> > wrote: > > > G'day Nancy, > > > > It would be interesting to do a survey of the bobbin-lacemaking members > of > > IOLI about area of education, highest degree obtained and when, career > > field, types of bobbin lace specialized in, maybe things like primarily > > self-taught or not, others?, and compare the stats from that to stats > > > > Along with that I think it would be interesting to include such things as > > ability to read music, play an instrument, sing in a choir etc. I just > have > > a feeling that many of us do. > > David in Ballarat, AUS > > > > - > > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > > > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > -- Amy Mills amymills.net 3473430956 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
