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Music inside Hagios Iob?

Started by DesertRose, February 23, 2020, 12:26:41 PM

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DesertRose

Through a cool mix of technology and research, Cappella Romana, a vocal group hailing from Portland, Oregon, has recently recorded an album of medieval Eastern Roman Empire sacred music that has been manipulated to sound like it would have sounded inside Hagia Sophia, pre-Ottoman conquest.

YouTube playlist of Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k98CAyJvDBJ0yBJQcDVyscJ1lNF66G92s

Short (> 5 minutes) audio story from NPR about how it was done:  https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago

I got nothing but WOW, y'all.
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Jerusha

Wow, indeed!   This is awesome; thanks for sharing.
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