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This was beautiful to listen to. By pure luck (should have done more reading), I was visiting Pisa in Italy. There's a building (the baptistry) _beside_ the leaning tower, which has the most perfect acoustics.

Every hour, they close the doors and a person sings a series of individual notes which then interact just _beautifully_ in the building. Hard to describe. There's a soundcloud[1] here, not mine, stars properly around 1:23. I think you really have to be there though, it was wonderful.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/miguelisazam/pisa-baptistry-of-st-joh... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisa_Baptistery



If you're interested, researchers from the University of Bologna have been working on virtual acoustic models of that space in its current form [0] as well as past configurations [1] that you might be able to look into. It is truly huge reverberation! And thus, pretty difficult to simulate.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2020.1728382 [1] http://pub.dega-akustik.de/ICA2019/data/articles/000682.pdf




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