
Final Teleutaion Antiphon Before the Entrance
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A choral recording by Cappella Romana from the album Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia. It is part of a project recreating Byzantine chant using the acoustics of the Hagia Sophia.
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Cited as an example of the Hagia Sophia acoustic recreation project, where a choir performs with the building's measured impulse response.
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From the Hacker News discussion
Just listening to the balloon pop in the Hagia Sophia was amazing to hear. Are there any other structures with similar acoustics that still holds performances? Also there's a YouTube playlist of the recording they mention at the end, the Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗There's a singing group from Portland that used impulse-response recordings from Hagia Sophia to recreate old church music as it would have sounded back when it was controlled by the Eastern Orthodox church. [LINK] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Somewhat related, a while back Cappella Romana, a vocal ensemble choir with some researchers had tried to recreate the sounds of Hagia Sophia. They mapped the interior to model the reverberations properly. [LINK] ( [LINK] ) Example of their performance: [VIDEO]
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