Reverberation and Dereverberation Effect on Byzantine Chants

Tsilfidis A, Papadakos C, Kokkinis E, Chryssochoidis G, Delviniotis D, Kouroupetroglou G, Mourjopoulos J. Reverberation and Dereverberation Effect on Byzantine Chants. In: AES Convention 135. Audio Engineering Society; 2013. Paper 8977. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17025

@inproceedings{Tsilfidis2013_17025,
  author = {Tsilfidis, Alexandros and Papadakos, Charalampos and Kokkinis, Elias and Chryssochoidis, Georgios and Delviniotis, Dimitrios and Kouroupetroglou, Georgios and Mourjopoulos, John},
  title = {{Reverberation and Dereverberation Effect on Byzantine Chants}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 135},
  note = {Paper 8977},
  year = {2013},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17025}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Reverberation and Dereverberation Effect on Byzantine Chants
AU  - Tsilfidis, Alexandros
AU  - Papadakos, Charalampos
AU  - Kokkinis, Elias
AU  - Chryssochoidis, Georgios
AU  - Delviniotis, Dimitrios
AU  - Kouroupetroglou, Georgios
AU  - Mourjopoulos, John
T2  - AES Convention 135
M1  - Paper 8977
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013/10/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17025
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Byzantine music is typically monophonic and is characterized by (i) prolonged music phrases and (ii) Byzantine scales that often contain intervals smaller than the Western semitone. As happens with most religious music genres, reverberation is a key element of Byzantine music. Byzantine churches/cathedrals are usually characterized by particularly diffuse fields and very long Reverberation Time (RT) values. In the first part of this work, the perceptual effect of long reverberation on Byzantine music excerpts is investigated. Then, a case where Byzantine music is recorded in non-ideal acoustic conditions is considered. In such scenarios, a sound engineer might require to add artificial reverb on the recordings. Here it is suggested that the step of adding extra reverberation can be preceded by a dereverberation processing to suppress the originally recorded non ideal reverberation. Therefore, in the second part of the paper a subjective test is presented that evaluates the above sound engineering scenario.
ER  -