Odd Salon SIEGE: The Empty Fort Strategy, Big Bangs, and Fall of Constantinople (part 1 of 2)
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2017-05-12

Odd Salon SIEGE (part 1 of 2) 
Tales of blockades vs. mighty walls, trebuchets and catapults, mercenaries, munitions, and strategies for deadly games of waiting
 
1st Half:
Annetta Black ~ Introduction
Isolde Honore ~ The Empty Fort Strategy 13:36
Marcelo Pontin ~ Big Bangs, Poor Planning & the Siege of Petersburg 23:45
Kurt Opsahl ~ Constantinople 1453: The Last Stand of the Roman Empire
 39:50

Recorded and mixed live at Public Works, San Francisco, CA, on May 3rd, 2017.

Curated by Annetta Black 
Camera: Ronny Preciado 
Edit/Post production: John Adams
Sound: Steen
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