07: How Moscow’s Tsar Bell found its voice — at Berkeley

Berkeley Voices

English - April 21, 2016 22:48 - 3 minutes - 4.65 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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We’re at UC Berkeley’s Campanile courtyard listening to sounds of an ancient bell that have never been heard before. It’s the 20-foot-tall, 200-ton Russian “Tsar Bell” — the largest bell in the world — in duet with the campus’s carillon.

But the bell isn’t actually here. It’s at the Moscow Kremlin. A UC Berkeley team, along with researchers at Stanford and the University of Michigan, worked together to digitally create the sound they believed the bell would make.

Read the story on Berkeley News.

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