Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

berauschendes Klangerlebnis

English translation:

Exhilarating sound experience

Added to glossary by Trudy Peters
Sep 23, 2003 02:44
20 yrs ago
German term

berauschendes Klangerlebnis

German to English Art/Literary Music
Speaking about an organ in a church:

1280 Pfeifen von sechs Millimeter bis drei Meter Länge sorgen für ein **berauschendes Klangerlebnis,** das während unserer Gottesdienste und Konzerte zu genießen ist.

I can't seem to come up with the right words...

Proposed translations

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exhilarating sound experience

Or rousing, electrifying - all based on synonyms of intoxicating.
Peer comment(s):

agree Rowan Morrell : "Exhilarating sound experience" is rather nice. I slightly prefer sound experience to listening experience.
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agree writeaway : a really good solution. exhilarating works particularly well since it's in a church context. and I also think sound experience is definitely the way to go.
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agree Steffen Walter
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agree Lizzie
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agree D D (X)
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agree David Moore (X)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Exhilarating sound experience is it! Thanks to everybody! Trudy"
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intoxicating listening experience

or
entrancing voyage in sound

entrancing musical voyage

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Note added at 2003-09-23 05:02:06 (GMT)
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enchanting and incantatory are other options (funny how they\'re cognates):

an enchanting / incantatory musical experience
Peer comment(s):

agree Richard Benham : or "sound experience"....
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agree Corinna Luchtenberg : I like 'enchanting musical experience' best
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agree shabda
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sensational aural experience

captivating the senses...particularly the ears!
As another option
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agree Nancy Arrowsmith
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rapturous experience in sound

I suppose they'd like it to be altogether "rapture-inducing". It's clearly transportive. It's an organ, after all, so it enters the bone marrow.

Definition of: Rapturous
Rapturous (a.) Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting
rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause. ...
www.brainydictionary.com/words/ra/rapturous210159.html
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magnificent

just to add to the thesaurus, not the same nuance as berauschend, of course
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