Transcript Music and weave - National Museum Wales

Weave, music and community
A Shetland tale
When I was a bachelor…
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Born in Zimbabwe and grew up there
Music ‘O’ Level
Exchange in Chicago and won a scholarship
Returned to Zimbabwe and did Hotel and Catering Management
Moved to London 1992
Gained Performance Diploma in Opera 1998
Created the Wind Dog Café in Shetland and moved up in 2001
Left the café in 2006 to run the Centre for Creative Industries
Teach and train in vocal music and performance
Learnt to weave in 2006 from Melanie Venes
In the beginning
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ASF Shetland was formerly the Ann Sutton Foundation
A woven whirlpool!
Came to Shetland in 2006
Established at the Centre for Creative Industries in Yell
Maelstrom project in 2007
Looking at textiles as a regeneration tool for development
The Centre is funded by
Shetland map
Music as inspiration - felting
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Music for community
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Singing Saturdays
SWRI choir
Bluemull Sound
Concerts
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Weaving for community
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Weaver in residence - Angharad McLaren
Short and longer home stays
Textile tours
Ph.D. in community and textiles with Heriot-Watt
The Giant Weave
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Words - music and weave
Patterns
Beau Cordier (b. around 1380)
Belle, Bonne, Sage
Tout par compas suy composé
Ian Blake
• Responding to printmaker Dianne Fogwell’s Resonance piece.
• Bees, printing process sounds, instruments and vocals
Textiles and music
Nigel Morgan
Textiles and music interact series
Studies in Movement Dance Figures
… create a kind of continually shifting warp of tonality colour across which
is woven a weft of ‘picks’ of different lengths and frequency. The analogy
with weaving is significant: the 'pitch' warp maintains a set of 10 ‘ends’
giving the music a set beat pattern and count. … It is possible to see
many examples in handwoven design of this kind of construction,
particularly in the woven creations of Anni Albers (wife of the artist Josef
Albers).
Anni Albers Code 1962
©2007 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society
(ARS), New York
Structure and composition
• Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
– Bela Bartok
– Psychological opera
– Fibonacci series (0 1 1 2 3 5 8…) and Golden ratio (a+b is to
a as a is to b)
– F# to C and back again
Structure and composition
• A woven whirlpool! ( part two)
Ancient Greek thinking?
• Tete a tete opera taking knitting as its focus. Odysseus
Unwound.
• Synaesthesia (together sensation)
• A web of song - Homer and the lyric poets. Taken from a JSTOR
publication.
– Claims weave terminology acts as a metaphor for intellectual
activity as well as literal weave with song
– Linguistic associations with weave and music
– Mechanical associations with the lyre and the warp threads
of the loom. Warp weighted, upright looms.
Time and music and weaving
• Is there something about perceptions of time and how music
affects it?
• How does music affect the weaving process?
• Does music and weave automatically go together? Why?
• Rhythm
• Does music allow a weaver to block out anything other than
weaving? Why?
Contact ASF
4 Sellafirth
Yell
Shetland Isles
ZE2 9DG
01957 744 355
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