Peer Gynt quilt, Part 1 (2021)

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by ColinWright • 2 years ago

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I am very glad that this sort of content survives on the modern web.

I should start documenting my hobbies a bit. I have a decently scaled (1 inch = 5 ft) model of the Redbrands' Hideout from Lost Mine of Phandalver sitting 75% completed behind me - I really should have taken more pictures of the process.

bloopernova• 2 years ago

Good lord the work that went into this is humbling.

theoperagoer• 2 years ago

This classical music loving computer scientist is blown away. Amazing project!

filoeleven• 2 years ago

Very cool! I laughed when you realized you had to toss the circle of fifths. I suspected that was coming due to an experience of my own.

In a college Music Theory I course, we had to choose and analyze a piece of orchestral music; the only rule was that it had to be from before 1900. I chose Anitra’s Dance, since I’ve always liked Grieg and knew it well. In short, it took me a fair amount of guesswork, some reading up on Romantic techniques, and a hell of a lot of colored pencils to mark it up. It looked like a Lisa Frank notebook cover.

When I presented my work to the prof, she said two things. First, she was pleased that I’d gone beyond what the course had taught us in order to figure out how to analyze it. Second, that she’s changing her rule and disallowing romantic composers for that exercise from then on.

It was interesting to discover that the piece has so much going on harmonically, because it doesn’t sound like it’s doing anything particularly weird.

re• 2 years ago

This is very cool; I'm a huge fan of creative visualizations of music. I would love to see an animated version of the quilt image that is synced to music and highlights each piece of the quilt corresponding to the current measure. I was eventually able to understand enough of how the musical features of Anitra's Dance corresponded to the quilt design elements to be able to do that for the Part 1 quilt, but it took me a fair bit of time, and I think a guided version might be more accessible to people with less music experience to help them grok the relationship between music and quilt.

susiecambria• 2 years ago

As a quilter, thrilled to see this on HN :-)

As a non-musical person (I like music but don't play, read, understand) and quilter, am interested in the fabric choices, especially the use of traditional quilting cotton and batik. In my quilts, I rarely mix them. I can feel through sight the difference in texture and I just can't bring myself to use them together. Though I do like when others mix fabric types, just like with this quilt.

And the embellishments are interesting. I would probably appreciate them and the whole quilt more if I understood music.

msarnoff• 2 years ago

Folks who have played The Witness… if you know, you know

Peer Gynt quilt, Part 1 (2021)

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