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Whenever you agree or disagree with nytimes you have to admit their interactive article is always a joy to play around with. But as the article points towards
by 0dayz 4y ago
Whenever you agree or disagree with nytimes you have to admit their interactive article is always a joy to play around with.
But as the article points towards that architecture can have a huge role in say sound is interesting, since you think most of us tend to just solve it by having louder or specially designed speakers.
I know there's similar architectual designs from the past where light plays a similarly important role.
- rob74 4y agoLouder speakers weren't available when Notre Dame was built though... all they had were human voices, maybe some other instruments, and sometime later, an organ.
- crazygringo 4y agoSpeakers can always change their EQ, or could in theory add reverberation (although I've never heard of doing that). But they can't really remove reverberation (you need carpets or other sound-dampening material for that). But in a church you often aren't using speakers at all, just like you aren't in a concert hall for classical music. Maybe the speaker during a sermon is, but not the choir. The kind of massive reverb you get in a cathedral is terrible for some music -- it would turn any normal pop concert into a muddy mess. But for a lot of organ+choral music that was obviously composed in the first place for these kinds of spaces, it creates a kind of magical all-enveloping effect. Which, if you're looking for religious otherwordly inspiration, is spot-on.