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Enter the Chamber
Neolithic acoustics, resonance and the deep prehistory of the drone
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Game of Thrones
HBO
The chaotic dreamscape of ancient ramparts, imposing sea defences, watchtowers, crumbling alleys, baroque cathedrals and Neolithic remains has served as backdrop for both Game of Thrones and Gladiator.
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Gladiator
Ridley Scott
The chaotic dreamscape of ancient ramparts, imposing sea defences, watchtowers, crumbling alleys, baroque cathedrals and Neolithic remains has served as backdrop for both Game of Thrones and Gladiator.
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The Modern Antiquarian
Julian Cope
Or, to apply Julian Cope’s helpful Stonehenge analogy from his British Neolithic survey The Modern Antiquarian: ‘If Jesus were to have stood in front of the monument during his lifetime it would have been older to him, then, than he is to us, now.’
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Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
Descending into its bowels feels like entering a netherworld, some Gormenghast fantasy, a feeling enhanced by each successive chamber being only partially visible from the next, separated by limestone walls and panelling.
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Sonic Wonderland
Trevor Cox
In his book Sonic Wonderland, Professor Trevor Cox talks of developing a sense of ‘aural wonderment’ and learning how to ‘read’ your surroundings aurally.
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Rave Death 1972
Tim Hecker
A record like Tim Hecker’s Rave Death 1972 (2011) is a case in point.
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Stone Age Sound
BBC Radio 4
Dr Keating believes this effect may have been exploited in ceremonies – the central area acting as a dramatic and unpredictable ‘echo chamber’ – as he explained on BBC Radio 4’s documentary Stone Age Sound in 2001: ‘It is inevitable that priests or druids would have found this effect and exploited it, or it is possible they believed that when they made this noise they were bringing the dead to life.’
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Stained Class
Judas Priest
Judas Priest were involved in a lawsuit over the 1985 double suicide of two men who shot themselves after listening to the band’s Stained Class album on repeat.
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Doctor, What’s the Alternative?
Dr Hilary Jones
Dr Hilary Jones described the process thus in his book Doctor, What’s the Alternative?
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An Actor Prepares
Konstantin Stanislavski
Russian director Konstantin Stanislavski – pioneer of the method acting technique – wrote along similar lines in his seminal text An Actor Prepares (1936):
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The Mind in the Cave
David Lewis Williams
In his 2002 book The Mind in the Cave, archaeologist David Lewis Williams proffered the idea that altered states of consciousness offered a key motivation to the creation of cave art, and that viewing the cave paintings from a modern Western materialist viewpoint was fundamentally wrongheaded.
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