Listening in the Past: Sound, Space and the Aesthetics of the Sublime

A gathering of scholars, engineers, and artists who collaborated on a multi-year research initiative exploring the interaction between architectural and natural spaces, and the sounds that are created and experienced within them.
What makes a place ‘sacred’? What is it about architectural acoustics that can elicit awe? How did ritual sounds and music develop for these spaces?
Join us for two days of presentations, demonstrations and concerts featuring live virtual acoustic renderings of cultural heritage sites.
Presentation sites include the paleolithic Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, funerary sites in Ancient Egypt, ritual Andean structures, sacred indigenous sites in the American southwest, and renaissance churches in Italy.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

CCRMA Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, 660 Lomita Court, Stanford, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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