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Brenna Hassett

@brennawalks.bsky.social

Archaeologist, biological anthropologist, and 1/4 of Team TrowelBlazers. I also write intense footnotes.

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Brenna Hassett@brennawalks.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just maybe apropos of nothing but also possibly my email inbox could we maybe look at the trend for centralizing admin and them outsourcing administrative labour in higher education right back out to academics and come up with a fun new term for it? I’ll go first! ‘Rentier Bureaucracy’ 🫠

Brenna Hassett@brennawalks.bsky.social · last wk.

Running inside joke being that there are Very Good Reasons there aren’t many people crazy enough to write a book about human evolution ;)

Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · last wk.

Useful short piece on how new research often forces us to change our minds about the past — I learned this the hard way, having to rewrite my kids’ book about the Stone Age (cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social) 5 times in 9 months due to new discoveries! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes@lemoustier.bsky.social · 3w ago

Completely wonderful seeing Oliver Beer's show with him, and exploring together many shared ideas of #art & #archaeology, around what caves do to humans and humans do to caves... This exhibition of sound-paintings, music & film is just gorgeous, go see it at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London! 🏺

À woman and man standing osé together in front of a huge canvas painted with pigment that's moved across the canvas by sound. It is swirling and brown and red and white, looking like the exit from a cave or maybe a planetary nebula. Woman in front of a text describing an exhibition by artist Oliver Beer. Text: "Oliver Beer The Sky in the Cave In his paintings, Oliver Beer makes sound visible. Working without a brush, he uses the resonant frequencies of specific sites, spaces and objects to conduct fine powders of natural pigment across the canvas. The resulting fields of pulsating colour are not representations of sound but its direct physical impression: each work a composition of up to one hundred individual frequencies. This exhibition grows from a discovery Beer made inside Font-de-Gaume, one of the best-preserved Palaeolithic painted caves. His research in archaeoacoustics established that its ancient image-makers were likely working in dialogue with the cave's sonic properties, painting at precise points of heightened acoustic resonance. As Jean-Michel Geneste, former curator of Lascaux, has written, Beer's work showed that the cave was not only a medium for images, but also a sounding board, an amplifier of experience. The Resonance Paintings emerged directly from Beer's experience of the cave, and image-making may have been entwined since the origins of human creativity. Blacks and ochres - the same mineral pigments used by Palaeolithic artists - give way to luminous terracottas, blues, pinks and yellows, tracing a passage from subterranean depth towards open sky. The exhibition's title evokes this paradoxical journey through sound, from darkness into light. For Beer, sound functions as connective tissue: a shared, bodily experience through which to move beyond a fixed ideas of time, culture and identity. The exhibition foregrounds listening as a perceptual act, and the urgency of, as he puts it, 'being silent long enough to hear what comes back when you put your voice out and into the world." The vinyl in the exhibition is the soundtrack from The Cave, Beer's video opera, composed for the eight voices recorded inside Font-de-Gaume and based of inheritance. on each singer's earlies…Close up of part of a painting by Oliver Beer, the colours are browns and blacks and reds, with some pink and white. The forms produced by sound waves look like flowstone formations in caves. Photo of a large white room with very large paintings hung on all the walls. They are all done using the sound wave and pigment method, but have varying shades.
Brenna Hassett@brennawalks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Look, I know Zelda was n64. And that IS important to me. Mostly because I lost like most of 1999 to it (the rest was to goldeneye) 😂😅 but how wild is it that ocarinas hang around for so many thousands of years, hey??

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Brenna Hassett@brennawalks.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am soooo excited for #tx of my little radio show! First ep tonight, starting with the beautiful voice of my uncle chris hassett. it’s #prehistory it’s #voice it’s #archaeology and just a bit family. What a joy to make ❤️ on bbc radio 3 every night this week at 21:45! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music, A Secret Chord

When did we, as a species, start to sing? Dr Brenna Hassett unearths our musical origins.

bbc.co.uk

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes@lemoustier.bsky.social · last mo.

🏺 Very very excited about this coming soon - explorations of sound and music in prehistory!

Brenna Hassett@brennawalks.bsky.social · last mo.

I am THRILLED to announce that BBC Radio 3 have let me make 5 whole episodes w the incredibly talented producer Becky on prehistoric instruments. They are ‘sound illustrated’ contemplations, so they are wild and personal as well as archaeological. And I get to open with my amazing uncle singing :)

Brenna Hassett@brennawalks.bsky.social · last mo.

I am THRILLED to announce that BBC Radio 3 have let me make 5 whole episodes w the incredibly talented producer Becky on prehistoric instruments. They are ‘sound illustrated’ contemplations, so they are wild and personal as well as archaeological. And I get to open with my amazing uncle singing :)