Series: The Architecture of Presence - Part 2 Building Universes from Code: The Acoustic Materiality as part of the series "The Architecture of Presence" In a forest, sound behaves differently than it does in a cathedral. The leaves absorb high frequencies; the stone walls reflect them, creating a complex web of reverberations that tell you exactly what the world is made of. This is the "materiality" of sound. In virtual reality, if we want a world to feel lived-in, we have t