I love music. I love tatting. I love life. I enjoy lots more too.
I enjoy reading a paper. I understand the importance of
being cognizant of events around the world. I know that such awareness is
important even though many days I do not come in contact with people outside of
family or a few individuals. I seldom listen to news on the radio or watch news
on the TV as I seldom seem to be on the same schedule that programming experts
expect of me. I have picked up the habit of looking at a digital compilation of
news. I use Flipboard mostly because that’s what the phone has loaded. Now,
before you, dear reader, get all huffy and decry how I find my news, please
hear out what I gravitate to reading. (I’m well aware that if my brother is still
reading by this point, he’s likely shaking his head and bursting out with a
lecture on how I’m NOT thinking for myself!)
When I read the paper or Flipboard, I browse the
headlines/titles of the “events” section, pause to consider what of those
headlines is negative or positive, and pray about it for a moment. Or two. If
after that, I consider more in-depth knowledge relevant to my small corner of
the world, I turn back and look at where the news is coming from, who wrote it,
and then read the material. (Satisfied big brother?)
All this is a long intro to a post on Flipboard that caught
my eye:
How Music Affects Your Productivity written by Gregory
Ciotti
I’ve found I really need to approach my music/tatting mashup
as a calling/job/goal-driven activity. Otherwise, what I create stays in my
brain or worse yet disappears without ever reaching the rest of the world. So,
I try to focus my energy on being productive.
How does music affect my
productivity? How can I express that so other people will understand and come
to value what I create? I read Mr. Ciotti’s post hoping to learn a bit more
about the rest of the world so that I can contribute more to the world. It was
good reading.
“Music has a strange temporal permanence; as art decorates
space, so does music decorate time.”
Well, I’m trying to take what decorates my time (organ
music) and turn it into something that can decorate my space (tatted lace). The
half dozen points made in the post gave me insight into music in lives around
me. Reading the post is quite valuable and interesting; thanks Gregory Ciotti. I
probably won’t change what music I’m hearing as I tat, but I know more about
the world I live in. The more I know about that, the better choices I can make
as I design.
I’m still working on mastering curled rings. I know that
technique will help to represent chordal music. I’m also dipping my toe into
Ikuta picots. I have a lot to learn there also. I hope to have pictures later
this week. I also hope to keep track of what I “hear” in my head as I’m
working. That should aid understanding. Just as a painter can “see” a still
life looking at a blank canvas, I find I “hear” a fugue in the silence while
winding thread onto a shuttle. Maybe understanding all this will help creating.
Maybe.
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