The same eight notes, played in four rooms. The melody is fixed. The room is the instrument.
A cathedral and an anechoic chamber are not playing the same music even when they play the same score.
Click any hall to hear. Or walk through all four.
The Halls
One melody, four rooms.
Anechoic Chamber
decay 0.0s · dry 100%
A room that swallows sound. Foam wedges on every surface absorb every wavelength. Each note begins and ends in the same instant.
Stone Chapel
decay 1.8s · wet 40%
A small room of cut limestone. The walls reply quickly, the floor catches the bass. Suited to a single voice and a single candle.
Recital Hall
decay 3.2s · wet 50%
Wood panels, velvet curtains, three hundred seats. Engineered to make a piano sound exactly as the piano wanted to sound.
Gothic Cathedral
decay 8.5s · wet 70%
Stone vault, a hundred feet to the ridge. Notes hang in the nave for eight seconds before they admit they are dying.
click a hall to begin
C · E · G · A · G · E · D · C
A room is itself an instrument. The same notes change depending on what they bounce off. The recital you sat through last night was, in part, a duet between the soloist and the architecture.