The sounds of fear: this good post reminds us of how certain spaces own scary sounds, and that some researchers are trying to pry them out of time. That's the awesome field of archaeoacoustics.
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The Mayan pyramid chirped like the sacred Quetzal. David Lubman compared the call of the sacred Quetzal bird, called the "spirit of the Maya," to the sound of clapping at the main staircase of Chichen Itza's Kukulkan pyramid. They were sonically equivalent.
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Peruvian culture used architecture to create altered states. Miriam Kolar...has shown the tunnels create a discomfiting rumble that resonates in the skull of living beings.
We need to see - hear - more of this in stories. There's the great Stone Tape from 1972 or so, and EVP tales. More, please!
(image from -just-jen)
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