The Acoustics of Ancient Theatres

Extra Conference Material

Updated October 14, 2011
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Presentations

Blesser-Salter keynote speech (1.5 Mb) (.rar file)

Jens Blauert keynote speech (wma) and slides (8.5 Mb) (.zip file)

Jens Holger Rindel presentation (2.5 Mb) (.pptx file)

Link for the presentation by Marcus Mota (University of Brasilia, Brazil):

"Meter Matters: Embodied Rhythms at Stage as a Challenge to the Acoustics of Ancient Theatre". The presentatiοn contains analysis and demonstrations of ancient Greek drama meter based on Aeschylus' Supplices.

Auralisations of ancient theatres and odeia

Computer simulations of speech and music reproduced inside these theatres and odeia. For listening please use headphones.

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Photos

Obtained by: Fotis Kontomichos, Antonino Di Bella, Gavriil Kamaris, Kalliroi Taroudakis.

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Presentations

Ancient Roman Odeon Workshop

Mesolongi Excursion

Epidaurus Excursion

Videos

Photo sequences from the Ancient Roman Odeon measurements workshop (by Gavriil Kamaris):

Acoustic measurements of Epidaurus theatre by Angelo Farina and sons. Video by Antonino Di Bella:

Acoustic Measurements

Impulse responses of Epidaurus Theatre, taken by University of Patras on April 2004 (see paper for details):

Measurements.zip (.txt files, mono, 16 bit, 44.1kHz) (4.5 Mb)

Paper.pdf

Additional Material

You can find material for diffraction modeling by Olive Tree Labs by following the link below:

Mediterranean acoustics R&D

ERATO project files

Below you can find demo material and proceedings pdf files for the ERATO project.

Link to ERATO demo files

Direct link to the ERATO project web site