Jim Feeley Posted January 1, 2020 Report Share Posted January 1, 2020 This is a cool seven-minute radio story from our local public radio station: ===== New Year's Day Music That Hasn't Been Heard in 500 Years The Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul is incredibly reverberant — a sound will echo around and remain audible for eleven seconds. That reverberance shaped nearly a thousand years of music written to be performed inside the cathedral. But no one has been able to listen to what it's like to hear a church choir sing inside the Hagia Sophia for over 500 years. That is, until now. ===== Some more text, and a link to the audio story here: https://www.kqed.org/news/11754695/california-sounds-new-years-day-music-that-hasnt-been-heard-in-500-years The whole project started a few years ago (but an album was just released, hence the news peg). There's a bit of background here on Stanford's CCRMA site: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/iconsofsound/auralizations/ And a five-minute video (aimed at a general audience): Check it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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