Notre Dame Cathedral, scheduled to reopen in 2024 ahead of the Paris Olympics, still has lots of work to complete. The art and statues – not to mention the gigantic organ – must be completely cleaned and restored and the iconic spire re-raised. But there’s a much greater battle taking place to restore the soundscape of the French monument – it’s “sonic fingerprint.”
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Making Notre Dame de Paris sound as it used to
J-P Mauro, Aleteia
Wednesday, March 8, 2023