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For just a moment,
Imagine your community chooses a spot...
...a spot in the commons where, over generations, they unfold the Pattern, starting with a naked eye observatory. Once a spot is chosen as the center, the axis mundi and equinoctal line found, a place moment sculpture is created. This sculpture sits patiently all the time, as the sun first sees it in the morning, then rises until, at High Noon, the sculpture knows the sun is as over-head as it will be that day, and causes a bell to ring, an image is captured and shared, and a burst of geo-data (collected by local students of Place) goes up on the web, adding to a living map composed of data tiles from all the places, east and west, that have similar installations.
This is a mapping of all the middle schools on Manhattan Island in the year 2000. We've drawn through each of them a line of Longitude, and cast them up to a musical bar which illustrates the instances when each of their bells would ring each day over the 26 seconds it takes for High Noon to cross Manhattan (if there were no clouds). Yes, High Noon takes 26 seconds to pass across the island every day.
The intervals between notes expressing the time it takes the earth to rotate from longitude to longitude daily.
The poignant counterpoint between two place-sets: The upper bar is the rhythm of the clusters and intervals of bells ringing at observatories located at all the UNESCO World Heritage Sites existing in 2000. On the bottom, the rhythm of all the refugee camps then managed by the UN High Commissioner of Refugees. (there are many more these days).
24 Hours of music, capable of expressing any place-sets that have chosen to have these observatories created on them. Colleges. Marketplaces. Memorials of one sort or another.
The intervals between notes expressing the time it takes the earth to rotate from longitude to longitude daily.
The poignant counterpoint between two place-sets: The upper bar is the rhythm of the clusters and intervals of bells ringing at observatories located at all the UNESCO World Heritage Sites existing in 2000. On the bottom, the rhythm of all the refugee camps then managed by the UN High Commissioner of Refugees. (there are many more these days).
24 Hours of music, capable of expressing any place-sets that have chosen to have these observatories created on them. Colleges. Marketplaces. Memorials of one sort or another.
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