Today the BACH tent which stood on the top of the northern peak of Okapi Island in Second Life since 2007 -just as its First Life counterpart did on the East Mound of Çatalhöyük from 1997 to 2004 - was moved! It was moved (see it on the left of the image) to the beach of the island to make way for a brand new and much more convincing tent that is being placed on its correct location. You can see it here floating in the air in the process of construction.
Here is a link to WNYC’s Radiolab podcast on Musical Language that I mentioned in class today
David Byrne (sonic architect) plays the building. For our acoustic archaeology session. Can buildings sing?
a website by/about the author The Soundscape, R Murray Schafer
Just for fun. How to make an interactive movie - NOT!
Bonekickers: Series 1, episode 1
Bonekickers cast talk about their characters
my assignment 2 for Anthro 230 Doing AudioVisual Archaeology. “Doing it differently” was the theme and using a different medium from Assignment 1. Last time I made an image collage. This time I chose a video created by stills and video from the BACH excavations at Çatalhöyük and housed it in the skin of the BACH excavation tent. I had ti create it in Keynote and then filmed it with Snap-Z-Pro. This actually comprises a scene in my movie for the SAA 7half festival
These are some of the shelters that have been built in the last fifteen years at the 9000-year old site of Çatalhöyük. They are built to “protect” the excavated areas for future generations to view and gaze at the prehistoric remains. They are built on top of the prehistoric houses and act as “houses” for the current and future generations of archaeologists. They are called shelters which somehow denotes ephemerality but I think they create a permanent marker of NOW and the FUTURE. This is my expression of the statement: “With archaeology we stake our claim to the future by finding the past”
This story was picked up by Examiner.com. Does anyone in Anthro 136j want to make a movie of how a possibility is turned into a probability. It started as a short report in UK’s Antiquity magazine on line. But who is Rainer Kühne? Anyone want tobe an investigative reporter?
