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Real Syntactic@mayintoronto bellringing, letterpress, relations between metaphor and psychoanalysis.
@mirijb2 Bell ringing?! 👀
@mayintoronto like CrossFit + math games + the most truly collaborative music making I’ve ever been part of. https://www.scacr.org/learning-training/getting-started/what-is-bellringing
Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)@mirijb2 Oooh, is that why people like bell ringing? @mayintoronto
@artcollisions @mayintoronto yes! It puts mind and body into collaborative total focus with each other and with other people’s minds and bodies.
@mirijb2 ah, I think I might experience that with either contra dance or English Country Dance and certainly to some extent with Shape Note singing. I think people should have access to these sorts of things on a regular basis. @mayintoronto
@artcollisions @mayintoronto a lot of bellringers I know/ have met do contradance! I didn’t know about shape note singing, but alternative notation is part of the bells as well. And I also love the chance to pull at different speeds and be lightly pulled/experience traction over several hours’ dynamic exercise. It’s fairly accessible (people ring who are not sighted and people ring from wheelchairs) and good for folks with strong osteoporosis family histories.
Rebecca Banner@mirijb2 @artcollisions @mayintoronto and if you're very lucky in certain circumstances you can enter a flow state. But be careful about waking up out of it - it's easy to forget where you are in the piece of ringing and go wrong!
epicdemiologist@artcollisions @mirijb2 @mayintoronto Or like me, they read The Nine Tailors at an impressionable age! (All respect to real bellringers!)
@epicdemiologist @artcollisions @mayintoronto I never read it till I started ringing. But there is a copy in our ringing room. Probably in every ringing room.