The Voice of Hagia Sophia

24 min, HD Video, 2018

The chant comes from the mouths of the singers, but it continues to resound within that space like a divine bodiless voice that you cannot see but you can hear.

SYNOPSIS

An acoustic and visual exploration of the 1500 year-old Hagia Sophia’s reverberant soundscape. For centuries, resonant voice and bounded light worked together inside this magnificent building to evoke the divine. Today as a museum, the function of the space has changed; and it is only through digital technology that we can experience the enveloping sound of Hagia Sophia which can bring us closer to understanding its complex history.