Notre Dame’s reconstruction gets help from budding field of soundscape archaeology aleteia.org

While experts are working to ensure Notre Dame de Paris looks as it did before the 2019 fire, one archaeologist is trying to recapture its famous acoustics. Mylène Pardoën, a self-described “soundscape archeologist,” has spent over a decade analysing acoustic environments to reproduce sounds of the past. Now, she is part of a dedicated effort to restore the everyday sounds of the famed sacred space.

Pardoën told the BBC that she established her role as a soundscape archaeologist, the first of her kind, after questioning why museums routinely overlook sound as a valuable aspect to exhibits. She identified audio as an element that would engage another of the five senses to better connect viewers with the past…

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