Dr Dance to present to the Rumford Club

Dr Stephen Dance is the invited speaker at the after dinner club, the Rumford Club, set up to discuss and debate the built environment. This year debate will be around urban wind turbines and their place in the energy mix. The dinner is held at the National Liberal Club in Whitehall, London on the 4th October 2018 at 7pm!

Uk/European Hearing Conservation Association Founders Meeting

On the 26th September 2018 the Founders' meeting of the UK/European Hearing Conversation Association was held at Starkey Hearing Technologies in Stockport, England. Dr Stephen Dance of the Acoustics Group, London South Bank University was invited by organiser Clare Forshaw. He gave a talk on musicians' hearing at the launch event! 

Abstract submitted to Reproduced Sound 2018

Twos abstracts were submitted by PhD candidate Eric Ballestero and by Peter Mapp of the Acoustics Group, London South Bank University for the Institute of Acoustics Annual Reproduced Sound conference Putting Sound in it's Place. This electro-acoustic 3 day conference will be held in Bristol 27-29 November 2018 at the Bristol Hotel. Eric wrote a joint paper with Daniel Castro on the new Virtual Reality plugin for auralisation. Peter working with the University of Derby worked on intelligibility and audience density.

New Virtual Reality plugin for sound developed

On the 8th September 2018 a demonstrate video of a newly developed Acoustics Virtual Reality plugin was uploaded by Daniel Castro of Wood & Grieves Engineers of Australia and PhD candidate Eric Ballestero from the Acoustics Group, London South Bank @university. The auralised voice in various rooms clearly demonstrate the marketing potential of the Virtual Reality plugin!

Student Paper published in Acoustics Bulletin

In the new issue of the Institute of Acoustics Acoustics Bulletin Sept/October 2018 former IOA Diploma and Masters student Paul Forster has written a paper based on his MSc thesis. The paper is entitled, "Investigating Novel Solution for Natural Ventilation- Passive Ventilation and Metamaterials".  It's on pages 50-58. It's a very new idea!

New London South Bank University Research Brochure

London South Bank University has published their research brochure for 2018 focusing on industry lead applied research collaborations Fourteen case studies are included one of which is on the work of the Acoustics Group with various World leading organisations involved in classic music. Dr Stephen Dance is working with: the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Opera House, Henry Wood Hall, BBC Singers, and London Philharmonic Orchestra and is hoping to publish the work later this year..

Paper on the Acoustics of Feathers Published

Heliyon, Elsevier on-line journal, recently published our paper on, "Novel sound absorption materials from air laid non woven feather fibres". The paper was written as a joint effort  with Imperial College, London and Dr Stephen Dance of the Acoustics Group of London South Bank University.

Dr Aygun presents at Material Acoustics Workshop

On the 20th September 2018 Dr Ayhun gave a talk on porous materials and their acoustical properties at the UKAN sponsored Acoustic Materials and Metamaterials Workshop. The meeting was organised by the Institute of Acoustics Physical Acoustics Group and held in Birmingham.

The 4000th Royal Academy of Music Student Tested

For the 12th year Dr Stephen Dance of London South Bank University has tested the hearing of the of students from the Royal Academy of Music. He predicted that the 4000th student will have their hearing tested this year. In addition, we also tested our first blind student and his beautiful dog!

Music and Hearing Seminar given to the Royal Academy of Music

On the 6/7th September 2018 Dr Stephen Dance was invited for the 12th year to present his research on Musician's Hearing and the Sound of Performance. This year he gave a series of 4 lectures to the Royal Academy of Music students in the brand new award winning Angela Burgess Recital Hall. Here's the lucky 13!

MSc student performs at the Royal Academy of Music

On the 7th September MSc student Dhruvit Zaveri performed his own composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He used an original instrument based on the Yaybarha which he designed and built himself as part of this dissertation. He got a rousing round of applause from a most appreciative audience.

London South Bank University wins Higher Education Academy Award

On the 30th August 2018 it was announced that the London South Bank University Enterprise team has won the Higher Education Academy's Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence for 2018. This is also integral to the Acoustics Group having completed multiple collaborative scholarships, a recent Knowledge Exchange Voucher, the EU A2i project, internships and industrial research with ICAX. We hope to continue this highly successful collaboration!