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An Application of Ambiophony for the Enhancement of the Reverberant Environment inside the Walls of a Byzantine Castle

Authors: Papanikolaou, George; Kalliris, George; Goussios, Christos; Dimoulas, Charalampos

AES Convention 114 · Paper 5792 · March 2003

Abstract

Beethoven's Opera Fidelio was performed inside the walls of Thessaloniki's Byzantine castle. The need for the raise of the reverberation time of this open space was satisfied with an ambiophonic application that used electroacoustical devices in order to generate and amplify the already existing reflections. The whole system was designed to provide a reverberant and highly diffusive character, with the needs for speech intelligibility taken into account.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 114
AES Convention
114
Paper number
5792
Publication date
March 6, 2003
Session subject
Acoustics of Recording and Reproduction
Affiliation
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2Mass Communication and Media, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper