The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern is a 3603s water reservoir measuring 87,500 square feet with 221 concrete columns, its stunning structure drawing comparisons to the more famous Basilica Cistern in Istanbul.
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Cistern was eventually recorded in upstate New York with the Contemporaneous ensemble because fitting a dozen or so people into the cistern itself would have meant an endless echo of shuffled shoes.
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The government built a brick school and a water cistern.
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Bischoff describes his journey in creating Cistern as, simply, epic.
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You'll know you're safe once the gang hits the cistern.
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I saw us, all of us, back together in the cistern.
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Where to Drink The Bay Horse, 8 Cistern Street, Totnes, Devon.
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On the side of the road sat a recently rediscovered Roman cistern.
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Iraqi troops had already moved in, dumping garbage in the ancient cistern.
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Another such clavo, which he described as being underwater, included a cistern.
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The Wharf also has a cistern system to collect and recycle rainwater.
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Taksim Square, named after a Byzantine cistern wall, has had many lives.
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Rooftop rain catchers feed a 70,000-liter cistern; a filtering system provides water.
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Photographs posted online showed a large metal cistern partially crumpled and leaning sideways.
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A third cistern is housed in a cave right above the other two.
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At a cistern, Laotians anointed themselves with water that flowed from mountain springs.
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We also had access to a limited amount of water via a large cistern.
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A plaque reading "handhewn caverns" is displayed in the stone front of the cistern.
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By the time it's reached the title track, a glacial loop, Cistern has become hypnotic.
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In other words, the 120-foot-long cistern saves money and helps the surrounding area.
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She said she had adapted with a generator, a newly built cistern and bottled water.
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A crater gaped in the street; a metal cistern raised on stilts was spewing water.
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Filmed in eight locations around the world, Cistern is a music video from artist Jherek Bischoff.
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No one from the government had come to inspect, or to supply water from cistern trucks.
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"I am the maid of the cistern, and you are my lady of the flowers," Solange bemoans.
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Spaced apart, they played and listened, the resonance of the cistern informing the edges of their improvisation.
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Lukas Anker leaping across the combination cistern-reflecting pool, which cools the air and irrigates the lawn.
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Tourist sites including the Hagia Sophia and nearby Basilica Cistern were closed on the governor's orders, officials said.
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The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern was built in 1926 to supply drinking water to the growing Texas city.
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To get around the occasional droughts the village suffers, she uses a large concrete cistern on her property.
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Tours of the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern are Thursday to Sunday and must be booked in advance online.
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"It will go into a ginormous cistern" in the basement before being pumped back up, Ms. Schantz said.
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Magdalena Fernández: Rain continues through June 4, 2017 at the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern (105 Sabine Street, Houston, Texas).
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I'm really grateful and happy that the museum did this, and that the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern supported it.
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And it was recorded in a cistern, where the sound was like being in a hall of audio mirrors.
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When that solution became unsustainable, they decided to excavate a new crypt and transfer the remains from the cistern.
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There are milestones and tombs, And puddles on the road, and you can just imagine the whispering of the cistern.
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But a set of features retains affect, as in a cistern, and from this something more subtle can be retrieved.
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"Sultry Night" (1939), one of Grant Wood's prints, depicts a farmer pouring water over his naked body from an outside cistern.
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It includes a library, a mosque, a school, mausolea, a cistern, a hospital, kitchens, a bakery, and some offices, says UNESCO.
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The family moved to Majorca, to a house with no plumbing, where they drew their drinking water from a rain cistern.
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There is a potentially restorable underground cistern and medieval well, and he suggested that solar panels could be installed for power.
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Magdalena Fernández's art installation is the first to fill the Buffalo Bayou Cistern, a formerly abandoned 1920s water reservoir in Houston, Texas.
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R. bought us tickets to check out the Buffalo Bayou Cistern, which has been on our bucket list for a while now.
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To that end, the island's equipment includes a rainwater cistern, two generators (one for backup), solar panels, a tractor and several boats.
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They collected more than 700 artifacts from a 19th-century brick cistern, two heaps of bottles and a small deposit of oyster shells.
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During the worst of our fracking episodes, it was always cheaper to buy everyone a private cistern and deliver water than to stop.
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His work with Amanda Palmer—most recently a couple of string tributes to Bowie and Prince—bare no real resemblance to Cistern either.
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You can even "view" it through a fairly convincing web experience that recreates the feeling of discovering the cistern for the first time.
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He has stored 200 gallons (760 liters) of propane in an underground tank for his generator and has access to a water cistern.
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The government installed a new water cistern for her, but FEMA denied her the money she needed to install the required new pipes.
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The team cut the bolts, released it from the cistern, put it into a box and transported it by van to their workshop.
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After seeing her installation inside the cistern, however, Fernández knew she had an opportunity to make it into a quite different piece of work.
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The amoeba was detected in untreated groundwater from a well and rainwater from a cistern that he had used as his household water sources.
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Angela lit a propane flame beneath a copper coil, directed him to a faucet beside the cistern, and said she'd be on the porch.
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Following their example, we grabbed a bucket, dipped it in the leftover bath water and deposited it into the empty cistern of our toilet.
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But Maduro showed little sign of relenting on aid, as a bridge linking Colombia and Venezuela remained blocked with a cistern and two shipping containers.
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The cistern officially opened last weekend, and tickets can now be purchased for visits, although it looks like they're sold out for quite some time.
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As evening approached, Father Zesati blessed another cistern to the bleating of sheep at the home of an older couple, Teresita Aguilar and Gabriel Padrón.
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Fernández says that 2iPM009's transformation into Rain started when Buffalo Bayou Park asked MFAH for help installing an art installation in the Houston Cistern.
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An old colleague told me she dips a bucket into her cistern to draw the water out and then heats it on her gas stove.
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Inside each cell is a squat toilet, with its cistern outside, to prevent those being held within from attempting suicide or harming themselves with the chain.
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Her writings and "Deep Listening" philosophy, which came out of a 1988 performance in an underground cistern, has had an lasting impact on avant-garde music.
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Situated beneath a stainless steel arbor over which jasmine will soon grow, the periscope allows visitors to look down into the dark realm of the cistern.
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A rooftop terrace, a bougainvillea-draped garden and a cozy subterranean wine cave fashioned from an ancient cistern add to the charm of this stylish property.
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The library even makes its own solar energy (30 percent of the building's energy is generated this way) and collects rainwater in a 373,000 gallon cistern.
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A few yards of vinyl records, well thumbed, Under the cistern that sometimes overflows over the front door in London, The drips giving visitors Legionnaires' disease.
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The library even makes its own solar energy (30 percent of the building's energy is generated this way) and collects rainwater in a 373,000 gallon cistern.
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Affixed to the cathedral-like structure are a series of spiked wheels that would turn as water — hydraulically pumped from an attached cistern — flowed through the structure.
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The same contractor and engineer told INSIDER the secondary building looked like it could be a cistern for treating or storing water or a small storage facility.
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Today, Chastagner's team hangs the branches on racks or wire clotheslines strung across a temperature-controlled concrete cistern, where they rest without water for seven to 10 days.
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A trio of players — Oliveros with her accordion, Stuart Dempster with his trombone and didgeridoo, Panaiotis with his electronics — descended into a cistern 14 feet under the ground.
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An electric pump pulled the water up from the depths and into a concrete cistern; from there, a hose snaked across the mud and weeds and plugged into Manjunath's truck.
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The post office happens to be near the 1920s Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, which was decommissioned in 2007, and in 2010 was planned for destruction by the City of Houston.
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Like those spaces, the cistern was once slated for demolition—and at one point, planned to be a parking garage (???)—until the city saw the value of keeping it around.
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A staffer drives her husband's tractor to nearby Lake Victoria, fills a tank attached to the tractor with water, and then drives back to dump the water in the cistern.
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"My husband can't bear the pain in his feet," said Guadalupe Mata, 39, a mother of three in Rancho Nuevo, the second village on Father Zesati's route of cistern blessings.
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"Water which is used in homes and businesses collects heat from the air around it, as in a toilet cistern, or is heated, as in dishwashers and showers," Clark added.
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Her Deep Listening philosophy has had an immeasurable impact on avant-garde music, and came out of a 1988 performance in an underground cistern that possessed an enormous natural reverb.
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The sculpture features rain barrels and an 2100-gallon cistern that families can use to collect rainwater at their homes, taking full advantage of the brief, but powerful El Niño storms.
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As a result of the drought, villagers in Petorca are allotted 50 liters a day of water that's delivered by cistern trucks, but they say it's dirty and loaded with contaminants.
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In 2010, as the land above the cistern was being transformed into a park, architects pried open a hatch and were stunned at the cave-like room filled with 221 columns.
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FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - An explosion at an industrial cistern in the Tuscan port of Livorno, one of Italy's biggest passenger and commercial harbors, killed two people on Wednesday, an official said.
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The domes are supported by concrete pilings and were once interconnected to make a 2,4000-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom home outfitted with solar panels and a cistern to collect rainwater.
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Rafaelian's restoration team pays close attention to original detail while outfitting the mansion with eco-friendly upgrades, such as transforming a former cistern for Belmont's horses into a new rainwater collection system.
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The Earthship&aposs roof catches rainwater and snow and then channels it into a cistern in the rear wall, so it can then be reused as water for drinking, cooking, and showering.
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Angela took him to her home, the first time he'd seen it, a wooden house on cinder blocks, with a concrete cistern, very tidy, laundry on a line and chickens in the yard.
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Its new name references its resemblance to the ancient Roman cistern in Istanbul, although its 221 20173-foot columns that form a matrix over 87,500 square feet are a more recent work of infrastructure.
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But then again MBS is not your typical stadium: on top of the EV chargers, it's got 4,000 solar panels, an edible garden, a 680,00-gallon rain water cistern, and energy-efficient LED lighting.
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This allowed the designers and contractors to consider items they might not have otherwise, like adding a second underground cistern in a space that might have been filled in with landfill or crushed rock.
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Just over a year earlier, Morenz, then 22015, returned home from hockey to learn his mother had drowned in a basement cistern — "ill for some time and her mind unbalanced," a Toronto newspaper reported.
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Pattinson's beauty is a respite in a movie with several arresting visual flourishes—the unruly sea, some menacing birds, the murk of the cistern, the slop the men eat for dinner—that make us queasy.
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Up the road from where Tejedor stood, hundreds of angry residents blocked the highway on Monday to demand that local authorities deliver a 20,000-liter cistern to supply water to the neighborhood of La Charneca.
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As we walked the perimeter, smelling damp mushrooms and peering into the ancient windows, we marveled that the cistern had been there, hidden and unnoticed, through hundreds of trips back and forth on that road.
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The roofs of the headquarters and a few of the neighboring buildings are outfitted with large gutters that collect and distribute rainwater to a 7,300-gallon cistern on the eighth floor of the Etsy building.
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Within the last five years, the house has received fresh paint and storm-resistant, energy-efficient windows, and a cistern has been installed and connected to the irrigation system to maintain the extensively landscaped property.
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They even drink from a cistern on the roof; Sikdar says it was so pure that, when they tested it, they could have drunk it as soon as it fell from the sky -- no treatment needed.
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It is backbreaking work, which she does mostly alone, hauling water from a cistern in the valley below, pruning trees, grafting new plants even as she tries to keep deer, boars, squirrels and birds at bay.
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But when Fernandez was asked if she would consider re-envisioning it as an immersive experience inside the Houston Cistern at Buffalo Bayou Park, she saw a chance to, quite literally, give the work new dimensions.
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In the middle of the atrium stood a cistern, which supplied water, and farther north are the remains of a pedestal on which stood statues of the nine muses, the protectresses of the arts and letters.
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Meanwhile, the younger man cleans the cistern, hauls coal, empties the chamber pots, cleans the floors, whitewashes the lighthouse tower, and tries to keep his head down while his companion seems most interested in provoking him.
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The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern itself only opened to the public this May, part of the redeveloped Buffalo Bayou Park on the edge of downtown that offers pedestrian-friendly walkways and greenspace around the previously inaccessible waterway.
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Their heads bob above the fence line while they bounce on a hidden trampoline, or pump water from a cistern up in the hills, or ride a pair of Shetland ponies down the side of a Hildale street.
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Josemary da Silva, the mother of a 503-month-old boy born with microcephaly, only has running water in her cramped one-room home when a truck arrives to fill a makeshift cistern she shares with a neighbor.
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Our camera showed an historic plaque at the town site, an old cistern, once a source of fresh water, and a concrete piling that had helped hold up the great docks that reached out to meet arriving ships.
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This month, Kriston Capps at CityLab reported that the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is launching a series of sound and light projects in the cistern in January of 2017, aiming to cycle in new pieces every six months.
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One more turning point came in 1988, when Ms. Oliveros and two colleagues — the trombonist, didgeridoo player and composer Stuart Dempster and the vocalist and composer Panaiotis — descended into an extraordinarily resonant disused cistern in Port Townsend, Wash.
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The only bills we have are internet and electric ($100 a month each), gas for the cars, propane for the house appliances, and a yearly water bill of $120 (we are on a shared well and have a cistern).
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And it stayed there, until the fateful day last year when it was discovered — filled with dirt, planted with tulips and attached to a lead cistern — by the antiques specialist, who was strolling through while visiting on other business.
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Simple, free measures the campaign wants to promote include putting a plastic bottle filled with water in the toilet cistern so less is used with each flush, and capturing water expelled by air conditioning units in a bucket to wash cars.
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But Both, the Chicago contractor and engineer, said the smaller structure looked less like a secret entrance and more like a cistern for storing or treating water, a necessity for bringing plumbing to the more remote parts of the island.
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We learn, for example, in a passing mention from Lizzie to her housemaid, Bridget, that the woman who once lived next door to the Bordens had drowned her two children in a cistern in her basement, then slit her own throat.
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Drinking water is drained from the roof The large roof on top of the Earthship catches rainwater and snow and then channels it into a cistern in the rear wall, so it can then be reused for drinking, cooking, and showering.
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When, for example, she made a recording in an underground cistern, Oliveros was utilizing both modes simultaneously in order to immerse herself fully in the reverberating space while building up an expressive and moving interchange between her accordion and her environment.
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The thought of a snake weaving its way through your cistern, covering itself in pissy water, only to hide in the underside of the bowl to launch an attack on your penile apparatus is a horror I can scarcely begin to comprehend.
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A combination cistern-reflecting pool wraps around the east and south sides, projecting sunlight into the interior during the day and creating a mirror effect at dusk, while it also scores LEED points by cooling the air and irrigating the surrounding lawn.
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It is stocked with equipment, from a cistern of rainwater used to flush the toilets, to a kitchen capable of serving hundreds, to all the desk space and computers necessary to coordinate the city's response to an unpredictable disaster like a CSZ quake.
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Comparing Picasso's utter indifference to haute cuisine with Matisse's daintier palate, he embellishes a description of Matisse's penchant for brandade de morue with unexpected advice: that the repeated washing of the codfish was best achieved, some housewives found, by a day's soak in the cistern of a flush toilet.
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When Lipski first descended into the cistern, he did so "through a hatch, down a vertical ladder"; a grant from the Brown Foundation has allowed for new guard rails around a walkway and a more accessible entrance, although all the renovations have protected the low light and historic atmosphere of the cavernous room.
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When Sean stops our small group at Philipse Well on Pearl Street, we stand around it, staring down as he explains how this cistern exists on what was once the Philipse family's property and was a place where enslaved people were allowed to gather and engage with one another as they drew water.
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They moved from nearby South Warrington and found two old farm cottages, which they converted into a two-story brick house, and installed huge triple-glazed windows, photovoltaic cells on the roof, a geothermal heat pump that heats the home and its water, and an underground cistern to hold rainwater for toilets and the garden.
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Today, Gersh and vice-president Molly Hubbell's Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI) not only produces thousands of pounds of organic produce each year, but also takes advantage of existing infrastructure in the community: Projects include a rainwater cistern made by waterproofing the foundation of a derelict home, and outfitting a former commercial building as a retail store for added-value products like pesto and tomato sauce.
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Nowadays, on Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, the main street, which is closed off to cars during the day, the shopkeepers are busy in their stores, while their children ride bikes in the street, laundry hangs from the clothes lines above, the ancient marble cistern still bubbles with water, and the bells from the San Michele church keep the time, marking moments in days that pass with nothing of much of consequence happening.
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