Performer records Hagia Sofia acoustics

The acoustics of Istanbul's famous Hagia Sofia was recorded just because all the while with eight cameras and voice recorders.

Turkish performer and artist Emre Yücelen and a volunteer group are behind the chronicle.

Hagia Sophia azan reading acoustic video

For an acoustics sound test, imam Önder Soy and muezzin Ahmet Toraman worked from a supplication room on the exhibition hall grounds and recounted the Muslim call to petition, or adhan, and different areas from the Quran inside the memorable historical center.

A "muezzin" is the individual who decides to petition.

Named the "Eight Wonder of the World" by students of history, the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia was a Christian church until it was changed over to a mosque when the Ottoman Empire vanquished Istanbul in 1453 preceding it transformed it into an exhibition hall in 1935.

An alum of Istanbul's esteemed ITU-Turkish Music State Conservatory's Sound Department, Yücelen transferred the video to his YouTube channel which has so far been seen in excess of multiple times.

This was not his first endeavor to record acoustics from chronicled structures in Turkey.

In 2006, Yücelen visited 17 mosques in Istanbul and talked with strict authorities for two hours and recorded their bare voice during the adhans.

Massive mosques have wonderful acoustics

In 2007, he discharged a CD, Istanbul Mosques and Muezzins and recollects the feel inside those structures. "Presenting the adhan in the first part of the day with Ali Rıza Şahin Hoca in [Istanbul's historic] Fatih Mosque on a winter evening," he reviewed. "Those leaves outside … the eminent acoustics of that huge vault."

He said Istanbul's tremendous mosques have glorious acoustics and noted they were constructed dependent on presenting the adhan with a stripped voice, however these days it is recounted with a receiver.

Yücelen said he had a "great point of view" and since he additionally gives singing exercises he, "truly needed to tune in to the acoustics of this spot."

The chronicles were made in three distinct areas inside the gallery: under the arch, in the mihrab – a half circle specialty in the dividers of a mosque demonstrating the heading the reliable should confront while supplicating, and in the muezzin mahfili, an uncommon stage in a mosque where muezzin does his obligations.

As per Yücelen a nitty gritty account like the one he did has never been finished. He reviewed teacher Zerhan Karabiber of Istanbul's Yıldız Technical University who did an acoustical test in the exhibition hall yet it was a voice recording.

Everybody hypnotized during recording

Yücelen reviewed how everybody was hypnotized during the account.

Ought to Hagia Sophia stay an exhibition hall or be come back to a mosque, as it worked during the Ottoman time? It is a subject that has been for quite some time bantered in Turkey and Yücelen said his motivation was never to make a contention.

"These are social legacy," he said. "We are discussing engineering, a culture that has been representing 1,500 years, and it is as of now living in Anatolian lands."

"It is an amazing privilege for us," he said.