PhD candidate wins IOA Award

 

PhD candidate Alec Korchev has won the Institute of Acoustics Early Career Award 2025. Alec works for Clarke Saunders as well as undertaking doctoral study with London South Bank University. Alec is the Association of Noise Consultants lead for Early Career mentoring and facilitating mentoring.  Alec also works with UKAN as an Early Career representative. The award is sponsored by Cirrus. The awarded will be presented in Edinburgh on 8th May 2025.   

Master student presents her research at the Royal Opera House

 

On the 9th April 2025 Masters student Antonella Bevilacqua presented her research at the Royal Opera House. Antonella gave an overview of the intermediate stage between Ballrooms and Theatres in architectural acoustics design with her presentation entitled, "Architecture and Music cross-correlation inside the Guitar Hall in Contarini's Villa, Italy". So if you wanted a musical evening first build a villa and hire an orchestra and get them to play over your head! 

Musical Acoustics at the Royal Opera House

 

On the 9th April 2025 at the invitation of the Royal Ballet and Opera the Institute of Acoustics held a half day Musical Acoustic events at the Choral Rehearsal Room. Prof Stephen Dance organised, chaired and presented at the meeting. Four presentations were given to the 24 delegates which included LSBU students and former students. The delegates enjoyed a private back stage tour before adjuring to Covent Garden for a drink.

Royal College of Art visit to Scream!!!

 

On the 9th April 2025 two students from the Royal College of Art visited the Acoustics Laboratory of London South Bank University to undertake an experiment. They wanted to scream in the anechoic chamber!! We measured the sound level at 110 dBCpeak with an average of 99 dBA over 5 seconds at a distance of 1m. When turned to face the sound absorbing wall the level fell by 20 dBA. The girls seemed to enjoy the screaming!