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A Slightly Curving Place

n 1995, sound recordist Umashankar Manthravadi was invited by Thomas Ault, professor of theater at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, to prove a hypothesis surrounding India’s Rani Gumpha caves: that as well as being a Jain monastery dating to circa 300–100 BCE, they were also a place of performance. Working at Delhi’s Archive and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, the self-taught recordist experimented with ambisonic tetrahedral microphones

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