Organising future Forum Acusticums

 

Between 8-11th September 2026 Forum Acusticum was hosted by the Austrian Acoustical Society at Graz Convention Centre. During the congress Professor Stephen Dance started the planning for a future Forum Acusticum conference to be held in the UK and of course sessions for Acoustics 27. 

PhD student Antonella Bevilacqua Presents at Forum Acusticum

On the 9th September 2026 former PhD candidate Antonella Bevilacqua presented at Forum Acusticum, in Graz. Antonella presented her work on, "Applications of Air-inflated Latex balloons beyond impulsive sources." Here there was a chance to see the absorption characteristics of balloons in the impedance tube and reverb chamber.  

Class of 2019- Alec's Wedding

 

On the 5th September 2026 the Acousticians from the Masters programme Class of 2019 reconvened for the Wedding of Alec and Ellie in Cheltenham. The Mayor by the Lake was the venue- we had some interlopers from Clarke Saunders (the bosses). Great to see so many of you still in acoustics! 

Free Field Audiometry Calibration at Chear Ltd

On the 2nd September 2026 the first phase of the MRC FERMATA grant was undertaken at Chear Ltd, Cambridge. This involved verification of the Quasi Free Field Room Acoustics of the audiology clinic. Prof Stephen Dance of London South Bank University and Dr Bradford Backus of Audio3 Ltd ran the test procedure to ISO 8253-2. It appears much stuff in the room helps break up the room modes! 

300 Happy Ears for Musicians

This will be the 20th year of Hearing Health Surveillance for the Royal Academy of Music. We had 300 Happy Ears arrive which will protect the classical music students. The problem they needed to be divided into small, medium and large,,,, musicians have small ear canals than the general population!

 

Closing Inter-Noise 2026 on behalf of I-INCE

 

On the evening of 12th August 2026 Professor Stephen Dance stood in for Professor Li Cheng (I-INCE President) to give the speech to formally close Inter-Noise 2026. Thanks were given to the local organising committee for all their hard work over the past 4 years!   

Presenting at Inter-Noise 2026

 

On the 12th August 2026 Professor Stephen Dance presented his research ar Inter-Noise 2026 in Adelaide Australia. His talk was in the Human Factors session and entitled, "A Supplementary method of assessment the hearing health of classical musicians". The talk received excellent feedback from the music community inside acoustics!