New instrumentation - Voice Care

On the 30th April 2013 Professor Alessio Carullo from the Politecnico di Torino Electronics department demonstrated a new voice stress analyser - Voice Care. He was kind enough to leave the instrumentation with the Acoustics Group so that it could be compared with the KayPentax APM analyser. The ERASMUS students will be undertaking the tests to verify the quality of the measurements.

Politecnico di Torino visit

On the 29th and 30th April 2013 Prof Arianna Astolfi and Prof Alessio Carullo from the Politecnico di Torino visited London South Bank University. Arianna presented her research in Building Physics and Acoustics and discussed potential collaboration starting with the recent progress made by the Masters students, Elena and Daniela.

Mike Barron gives guest lecture

On the 26th April 2013 Mike Barron gave a guest lecture to the Acoustics Group. The topic was auditorium acoustics in particular room acoustics parameter which represent the subjective listening condition for the audience. The students greatly appreciated Mike's time especially the Q&A session afterwards.

Opera Singers in the Lab

On the 17th April 2013 opera singers from the Royal Academy of Music visited the Acoustics Laboratory. They sang beautifully for us in the anechoic and reverberant chambers. A delightful day

Eurosis Electronic Voting Clickers

A new purchase for the Acoustic Group! The Eurosis electronic voting system to quickly and accurately collect subjective responses. Multiple acoustic uses! 24 clickers so enough to collect an entire classes feedback!

Auralisation Headphones

CATT Acoustics v9.0c room prediction software came with built in auralisation technology. To create accurate auralisations the singal should be corrected for the headphones frequency response. The Beyerdynamic 990pro headphones automatically match the CATT Acoustic auralisations. We are going to listen to opera singers in their own virtual world!

Campbell-Associates demonstrate latest tech

On the 19th April 2013 John Campbell of Campbell Associates came to visit the Acoustics Group to demonstrate the very latest technology. The new miniature acoustic camera produced an active discussion amongst the MSc students on the potential applications for the device. The particle velocity probe also had it's uses in diagnostic analysis. Many thanks to John.

Upcoming VA system design presentation at the Institute of Acoustic Branch Meeting

 On the evening of the 19th June 2013, Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina will present his PhD research at the London branch of the Institute of Acoustics. The topic is the design of voice alarm systems on underground stations. Should be good!

Student presentations at the Institute of Acoustics

On the 17th April 2013 MSc students Shane Sugrue and Rob Burrell each presented their dissertation to the Institute of Acoustics London branch meeting. Rob began with an overview of privacy in cellular offices before moving on to the new ISO 3382-3 standard on open plan offices including distraction and privacy considerations. Shane presented his work on objective and subjectively categorising different venues in terms of suitability for choral singing. The picture shown is of Shenzhen Concert Hall.

Abstract accerpted for Internoise 2013

PhD student Nick Durup has had his abstract accepted for a special session on classroom acoustics at Inter-Noise 2013 to be held in Innsbruck, Austria. The paper will be on his pilot study involving vocal stress in four classrooms each of which had different acoustic treatments.

NTi News Item by Dr Gomez

NTi Audio have published our thoughts on the XL2 analyser. To summarise we were impressed. Just look at the article prepared by Dr Gomez to see how impressed!

Inter-Noise 2014 - Room Acoustics

On the 9th April 2013, Dr Dance was invited to organise and chair a session on room acoustics for Inter-Noise 2014. The conference will be hosted by Melbourne in the Spring of 2014, November 2014. The session will specialise in the acoustics of schools, so all those interested in going to Australia and presenting please contact dances@lsbu.ac.uk.

Sinai School Measurements

On the 5th April 2013, the Acoustics Group were invited by the Sinai School to assess the condition of their sports hall. Daniela, Elena and Gizem undertook ISO 3382-1 measurements to understand how to improve the acoustics of the hall. Computer modelling will be used to predict the effect of potential solutions.

Examining Charlie Mydlarz Thesis

On the 26th March 2013 Dr Dance was asked to examine Charlie Mydlarz doctoral thesis for Salford University. Should be an interesting read.