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