Professor Angela Bellia recently served as a guest speaker at the meeting of the ICTMD Multispecies Sound and Movement Study Group.
During her address, Professor Bellia explored how the architecture of ancient sacred sites functions not merely as a visual construct, but as a dynamic sonic environment capable of shaping collective experiences through ritual. This research is central to the VOICING project (“Voicing Spaces: Towards an Aural Architecture in the Past”), which seeks to restore a “voice” to the performance spaces of antiquity. By investigating the interplay between architecture, ritual intent, and sound, Professor Bellia’s contribution highlighted how acoustic conditions were strategically engineered to facilitate numinous experiences.
Professor Bellia expresses her sincere gratitude to the organisers, Mitra Jahandideh, Robbie Beahrs, and Christian Ferlaino, for the opportunity to engage in such a meaningful interdisciplinary dialogue.
