Christian Marclay visits the Acoustics Group

On the 28th July 2011, the visual artist and composer Christian Marclay visited the Acoustics laboratory for an interview with Wallpaper magazine. Wallpaper is targeted at interior designers, fashion, art and lifestyle. Lots of pictures were taken!

Orchestra Pit Acoustics at the Royal Academy of Music

On the 28th July 2011, a series of room acoustic measurements were undertaken at the Royal Academy of Music. The orchestra pit was of particular interested to Master's student Alba Losada and I wanted to use the new Norsonic hemi-dodec and lightweight amp with the grateful assistance of Luis Gomez.

Brad presents at ICBEN

On the 28th July 2011, Brad Backus presented a joint paper with Steve Dance and Emad Bukhary on "Novel Noise Dosimeters" to ICBEN's Team 1. He did this using a "Show and Tell" style - a first for the conference!

Georgia presents at ICBEN

On the 28th July 2011, Georgia Zepidou presented her paper entitled, "Hearing loss amongst
classical music students" at Imperial College for ICBEN. Georgia then had to answer many tricky questions, which she helded with ease!

ICBEN Banquet at the Science Museum

On the evening of 26th July 2011, ICBEN held their conference banquet at the impressive Science Museum. During the proceedings Bridget Shield received a bouquet for her tireless work organising the conference over the past 2 years, from "flower girl" Nicky Shiers :)

Bridget stands in for Julie at ICBEN

On the 25th July 2011, Bridget Shield give a presentation entitle,"Noise in secondary schools pupils' : Perception and Performance" at the 10th ICBEN conference. Bridget had to stand in at the last minute for Julie Dockrell!

Acoustics Group at ICBEN 2011

On the 24-28th July, the Acoustics Group attended 10th ICBEN conference at Imperial College. The conference was organised by Prof Bridget Shield, who also arranged the beautiful weather. Well done Bridget.

Acoustics Group Summer Party

On the 20th July 2011, the Acoustics Group held their summer party by the river Thames. We did miss a few people, but we did drink to your good health!

Joint Anglo-Franco Conference 2012

For 2012 a joint Institute of Acoustic/French Acoustical Society conference will be held in Nantes between 23-27 April. I've been asked to organise a session on acoustical education with Catherine Polet of Le Mans Univesity. I would think that we could use cheap acoustics as a basis for the session

Welcome to the club Dr Rick

On the 18th July 2011, Richard Hughes defended his doctoral thesis at Salford University. The panel of experts included Trevor Cox, Damian Murphy and Steve Dance. Rick did really well, which was lucky, as it was my first external examination. Well done Rick - minor correction only!

Visiting Fellow Bob Peter's new book

On the 8th July 2011, Bob Peters new book was published. It is the course core text and can be purchased from Amazon now. Well done Bob

Music, Noise and Hearing: how to play your part

On the 4th July 2011 the consultation draft of Music, Noise and Hearing : How to play your part was published on-line through the BBC website. This is a guide for musicians created from the work of the Noise and Hearing Working Group over the past 2 years. It has drawn upon the case studies generated with the Royal Academy of Music and the London Philharmonic Orchestra amongst others.