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The album of Capella Romana is on Spotify for whoever's interested: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iB2tDdXCTaV2PMlcgNYdA?si=X_k... This will be my background music for weeks now :D
Here's the Apple Music link as well: https://music.apple.com/us/album/lost-voices-of-hagia-sophia...
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kFvQRadRiMgs...
The next step (that will probably never happen) would be to refurnish the Hagia Sophia, as it would have been before it was plundered in the fourth crusade, and seat an audience in it, as if for a mass. Then pop another balloon. All those extra furnishings and bodies would have had a significant impact on how the space sounded. The plastered over mosaics might also create a noticeable effect that would need to be com…
I find it strange that people and historians are so fixated on the 4th Crusade as the be all end all of the Byzantine's and ignore or minimize as much as possible all that irrelevant side business of the centuries of fighting with the Muslims. You know, the guys that fought them far more often and more brutally and actually took away nearly all their territory and destroyed them? In addition to the above comment and…
A few years ago I went to Aya Sofya with a Turkish violinist friend who studiest at a conservatory here. Unexpectedly, up on the top floor, he pulled out his violin and started playing an Armenian/Azeri song called "Laz". He made it through 3 glorious minutes before security escorted him out. The sound was unreal. I would love to hear the same test done in the Basilica Cistern.
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> they made an audio filter using techniques and understanding of sound in space that only became available in last 10 years. This is an old technique. The idea of convolving the impulse response of a system with an input to yield the output is the basis of LTI systems theory. And while convolution isn't the most computationally light operation in the world, computers have been up to the task of practically performin…
I wonder why one would need an impulse response recording. The dimensions and materials of the chamber are known. Seems like the effect could be synthesized from that.
The next step (that will probably never happen) would be to refurnish the Hagia Sophia, as it would have been before it was plundered in the fourth crusade, and seat an audience in it, as if for a mass. Then pop another balloon. All those extra furnishings and bodies would have had a significant impact on how the space sounded. The plastered over mosaics might also create a noticeable effect that would need to be com…
A few years ago I went to Aya Sofya with a Turkish violinist friend who studiest at a conservatory here. Unexpectedly, up on the top floor, he pulled out his violin and started playing an Armenian/Azeri song called "Laz". He made it through 3 glorious minutes before security escorted him out. The sound was unreal. I would love to hear the same test done in the Basilica Cistern.
Do you have video?
A few years ago I went to Aya Sofya with a Turkish violinist friend who studiest at a conservatory here. Unexpectedly, up on the top floor, he pulled out his violin and started playing an Armenian/Azeri song called "Laz". He made it through 3 glorious minutes before security escorted him out. The sound was unreal. I would love to hear the same test done in the Basilica Cistern.
Do you have video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq2KWVrLKEM
(Not the Aya Sofya moment)
"Only possible in the last 10 years" is not correct. Computer musicians have used the IRCAM ISPW board as far back as 1989 to implement live real time convolution. Single purpose realtime convolution reverb hardware has been commercially available since Sony's 1999 DRE S777. Non-real time convolution has been done for decades as well, including by myself in 1991 and likely hundreds of others during that time period.…
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Could you point me to more info/examples on physically impossible reverbs?
Convolutional reverb means you convolve the impulse response of a system with a "dry" input signal to get your output. If the impulse response has any content before t=0, that content will cause a sound in your input signal to have an effect on the output before it happens. "Acausal" is the jargon.