Does a bell have to ring before it is truly a bell?
The Russian Tsar Bell was the largest bell ever cast at over 200 tons. But in 1732, before it was even struck, this Goliath of bells broke. Its parts have been on display in the Kremlin ever since.
Now, a team of UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers are making the Tsar Bell ring for the very first time.
With Finite Element Analysis (FEA), they created a computational model of what the bell would have sounded like. The recreated Tsar Bell will be "played" in concert with the UC Berkeley Carillon at Sather Tower on Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16, 2016 - just in time for Cal Day. The sound will be presented every hour on the hour from noon to 4PM.
12 midnight, Campanile Esplanade, UC Berkeley
Jessie Bridges opens. $50 - $125.Proceeds will go to Berkeley Rose School to fund their generous tuition assistance programs so they can welcome more families who desire a rigorous, developmentally appropriate & whole-child focused education. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States