Field Geometry
2000
compact disc (Chicago:explain)
In the 1830s, Friedrich Froebel created a new system of early childhood education, known as Kindergarten. He developed a series of materials/activities, which were abstract (nonspecific, open-ended and symbolic), in stark contrast to the childhood toys of the time, which were intricate, detailed and realistic. Earlier in his life, while studying crystallography and forestry, he came to see the interrelatedness of all things, and made the link between nature and geometry. He created the gifts as a means by which young children would also understand, through direct experience, the underlying mathematical logic of both science and nature. This recording is made from the sound of the activities themselves, and guitar.
