Virtual Camino show at UCLA; L.A. Friends interested in going?

[Marla Keesee]

Virtual Camino show at UCLA; L.A. Friends interested in going?8/9

Hi Judy,

I would be interested.  Keep me posted. And can you give more information re. this.

Marla Keesee
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Judith Nollar 
  To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:08 AM
  Subject: Virtual Camino show at UCLA; L.A. Friends interested in going?


  L.A. Times Sunday July 24 reports that groups of 40 or more may request a show at the Visualization Portal at UCLA .  It is free and lasts about one hour. Could we get together a Friends group of 40 persons to go?  If so, I will try to set it up.  I can guarantee at least 8 to go.

  Judy Nollar



  "The time machine drops you onto the dusty streets of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. The year is 1211.

  A few hundred yards ahead is a Romanesque cathedral, nearly complete after 100 years of construction..

  ..The pilgrimage is so central to Spanish culture, it just pops up everywhere. It's like a major artery or spinal cord for Spain," said professor John Dagenais, who spearheaded the 4-year-old virtual cathedral project. Using writings of the Middle Ages inspired by the pilgrimage, Dagenais said he was able to develop more of "an itinerary than a syllabus,"..

  When looking at the 9-by-24-foot curved screen with 160-degree views, observers also can access backup data and historical documents"

  To enhance the Santiago de Compostela model, Dagenais has independent-study students in Spain collect data from the cathedral each summer. Last year, Reid was part of a group that recorded ambient sound. Armed with digital equipment, Reid and seven other students simultaneously recorded sounds throughout the chapel that now play in the UCLA theater.
  "The sounds [in 1211] would have just blown you away," Dagenais said. "It was noisy, with conversations in many languages and music from pilgrims who came from different countries."

  You're back inside the cathedral, walking down the center of the pewless building. Above is a barrel-vaulted ceiling the length of a football field. To your right, on the second floor, is an open gallery where pilgrims stay."



   


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