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The Quest to Restore Notre Dame’s Glorious Sound - The New York Times

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In Paris, experts are modeling ways to revive the burned cathedral’s centuries-old acoustics. A Times interactive shows how space can affect what we hear.

tag"> This article features spatial audio. For the best experience, turn your sound on and use headphones. After a fire engulfed Notre Dame in 2019, horrified onlookers around the world donated nearly $1 billion to restore the cathedral. For centuries, visitors thrilled to the cathedral’s soaring Gothic architecture, its gorgeous stained glass. But just as electrifying was its sound. ​ Of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo wrote that it had sounds “fraught with such benediction and such majesty, that they soothed this ailing soul.” It is this sonic landscape that a group of researchers is trying to bring

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