Elton John's new organ

On the 22nd October 2013, the Royal Academy of Music installed and commissioned their new organ. Now we can measure the sound exposure of organists!

Dr Christos Nestoras visits

On the 17th October 2013, Dr Christos Nestoras visited the Acoustics Group from the University of Thessaloniki. From discussions a paper will be published based upon low level noise measurements. Then we celebrated with Saffron tea.

Discussions with the London Symphony Orchestra

On the 9th October Dr Stephen Dance and PhD student Georgia Zepidou were invited to the Barbican by the London Symphony Orchestra. Discussions were held with the noise team to develop a suite of mitigation measures. We are predicting significant collaboration with a lot of potential student projects!

Resonators under testing for Ramboll

Tuned resonators are being tested in the new reverberation chamber for Ramboll to determine their effective frequency range for use in the refurbished Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank. MSc student Christina Higgins is leading the work under the supervision of Dr Luis Gomez.

Reverberation Chamber Refurbished

On the 1st October 2013 the refurbishment of the Acoustics Group's reverberation chamber was completed. The 200m3 chamber is current being commissioned, but is back in action!

Abstracts for Reproduced Sound Submitted

The programme for the Institute of Acoustics Reproduced Sound conference is now available. The conference will be held in Manchester and will last 3 days during which Dr Luis Gomez will give his Peter Barnett Award lecture, entitled "Electro-acoustic design og voice alarm systems for underground stations", plus Lornezo Morales will give a paper entitled, "The importance of the speech spectrum on the STI calculations".  All wrapped round with a visit to MediaCity!

First Joint Masters Student Graduates

On the 26th September 2013 our first joint Masters student, Daniela Falzone, graduated from Politecnico di Torino. Daniela's thesis was entitled, "Influence of acoustics on vocal performance of lyric singers". The thesis was scored 104/110. So you can give 110% in Italy!