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Umashankar Manthravadi

FIELD MEETING | Take 4

November 12, 2016 | Hosted at Asia Society Museum, New York

The Archaeologist & His Manmade Cave

The Archeological Survey of India has never identified any ancient structure in the nation as a theater, despite the fact that performance traditions in the region go back to the Kama Sutra. Mathravadi shares his 20-year quest to decode the acoustic properties of Rani Gumpha –an elaborate man-made structure in theKhandagiri Mountains of India. Using his own developed software, he studies the unique effects of this mysterious place, establishing that it was in fact, an auditorium.

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