In June 2014, an interdisciplinary team of scholars studied eight of medieval Thessaloniki’s most significant churches in order to assess the relationship of architectural design and acoustics the association of chant, acoustics, architecture, and monumental painting and the role of sound in the experience of the medieval worshipper. Soundscapes of Byzantium is an international collaborative effort that seeks to investigate Byzantine liturgical spaces through the scientific analysis of acoustics in conjunction with the study of changing architectural forms, the documentation of imagery inspired by choral performance and hymn composition, and the transcription and recording of medieval chant.
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