Archaeologists combine state-of-the-art opera with research into acoustics to recreate an ancient sound stage
A “MEDIA opera” that features state-of-the-art audio-visual technologies, Pitoti: Echoes of the Echoes hovers somewhere between being a research report on rock art and an artwork in itself.
The research focuses on findings that use acoustics to explain the positioning of 4000-year-old rock paintings around their valley home of Valcamonica in northern Italy.
A musical performance, then, is an apt choice for augmenting more traditional forms of publishing. Film-maker and archaeologist Frederick Baker, co-director of the multidisciplinary Prehistoric Picture Project (PPP) that is behind the…
