If you appreciate different types of music such as religious, spiritual or Catholic, this might interest you.
Built in 537 AD, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was originally a Greek Orthodox Christian cathedral. At the time it was the largest building in the world. Later the building was declared to be a mosque when Muslims conquered Turkey in 1453 AD, during the rise of the Ottoman Empire. Today the building is a museum, so they don't hold church services there anymore.
In 2019 some scholars wanted to recreate medieval religious music in the space and get a sense of what it must have been like to experience music there just like people would have in the Middle Ages ... how to do it?
These guys were smart... although they couldn't have a choir sing in the building, they were allowed to record the sound of a balloon popping. The amazing acoustic properties of the space and its massive dome were recorded in minute detail. Every echo and reverberation.
Then, with this data they were able to create a digital filter that could be applied to modern voice recordings -- in this case, in partnership with the musical group Capella Romana. The result is exactly what it would have been like to listen to these songs being sung inside the Hagia Sophia.
You have never heard anything like this before -- no one has, in over a thousand years.
If you have a Spotify account, you can listen to the entire album here (best with headphones): https://open.spotify.com/album/5iB2tDdXCTaV2PMlcgNYdA
MP3 album available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZPCBRN2/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_00aAEbTZ2E8DX
NPR show with background of the project: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/8084...d-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago
Built in 537 AD, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was originally a Greek Orthodox Christian cathedral. At the time it was the largest building in the world. Later the building was declared to be a mosque when Muslims conquered Turkey in 1453 AD, during the rise of the Ottoman Empire. Today the building is a museum, so they don't hold church services there anymore.
In 2019 some scholars wanted to recreate medieval religious music in the space and get a sense of what it must have been like to experience music there just like people would have in the Middle Ages ... how to do it?
These guys were smart... although they couldn't have a choir sing in the building, they were allowed to record the sound of a balloon popping. The amazing acoustic properties of the space and its massive dome were recorded in minute detail. Every echo and reverberation.
Then, with this data they were able to create a digital filter that could be applied to modern voice recordings -- in this case, in partnership with the musical group Capella Romana. The result is exactly what it would have been like to listen to these songs being sung inside the Hagia Sophia.
You have never heard anything like this before -- no one has, in over a thousand years.
If you have a Spotify account, you can listen to the entire album here (best with headphones): https://open.spotify.com/album/5iB2tDdXCTaV2PMlcgNYdA
MP3 album available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZPCBRN2/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_00aAEbTZ2E8DX
NPR show with background of the project: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/8084...d-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago
