The Russian "Tsar Bell” is 20 feet tall and weighs 200 tons. (Flickr photo by eimoberg )
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. Greg Niemeyer , part of the Tsar Bell team, is an associate professor for new media in the art practice department at Berkeley and director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He recounts the story of how this massive Tsar Bell came to be. "In Imperial Russia, tsars got into making larger and larger bells as a form of one-upmanship.
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