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

Schedule

Fri May 22 2026 at 01:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-07:00

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CCRMA Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics | Stanford, CA

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What makes a place ‘sacred’? What is it about architectural acoustics that can elicit awe?
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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.

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

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