17 – Entrancing Acoustics

May 12

Evaluating the experience of live music

David presents his very late Christmas gift to Zack, reminding Zack to share literature he received for Christmas about cathedrals. Meanwhile, Tom shares an article about a “soundscape archaeologist” who is working to recreate the sounds that would have existed in Notre-Dame during the medieval times.

SEE: The sounds rebuilding Notre-Dame’s previous vaults (article)

SEE: Guédelon Castle

Tom, David, and Zack evaluate the experience of live music, judging what its advantages are over recorded music. Tom argues that experiencing cathedral music is one of the hardest live-music venues to replicate. The gents ponder how humans have many different ways to listen to music.

SEE: Hello Internet (podcast)

SEE: Mahler’s 2nd Symphony

SEE: Deep Listeners, by Judith Becker

SEE: Eidetic memory

SEE: The Organ of St. Paul’s Cathedral

SEE: XKCD Comic 878: Model Rail (nesting concerns)

SEE: Synecdoche, New York (movie)

SEE: Self-similarity