Seminar for Making Music

On the 27th November 2014 LSBU hosted a meeting for Making Music at CEREB. The seminar was on Music and Hearing Safety and it was jointly presented by Martin Marmoy-Haynes (of JEM Safety Management) and Stephen Dance. Questions were answered over a glass of wine in a very civilised manner!

Leo wins ASA Newman Award

On the 26th November 2014 Masters student Leo Weber was awarded the Acoustical Society of America Newman Prize for best student project. His research project was entitled "Investigation into the application of an acoustic meta-material for sound attenuation in airflow" and was supervised by Dr Luis Gomez–Agustina. Leo and Luis will be presenting a paper based on the research project at ICSV in Italy next summer!

THe Vision Forum visits from Sweden

Swedish contemporary artists visited the Acoustics Group on the 25th November 2014. Karin Kihlberg of Linköping University,  was the organiser of the visit and the co-coordinator for the Vision Forum. The Vision forum is an international organisation which carries out research and contemporary visual art productions across borders. The researchers attended a lecture given by Dr Brad Backus and then visited the Acoustics labs. I think everyone had a good time!

Luis article on the front cover of the IOA bulletin

A technical contribution article by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina has been selected to feature as leading article on the front page of Institute of Acoustics (IOA) Nov-Dec 2014 Acoustic Bulletin issue. The article entitled “Improvement of voice alarm systems (VA) in underground railway stations” is based on the conference paper which was nominated by delegates attending Reproduced Sound 2013 to appear in the Bulletin. Previous IOA president Bridget Shield told the Acoustics group: “A good platform (sorry, pun not intended!) from which to launch Luis plea for a new standard”

Abstracts for EuroNoise 2015

More abstracta have been submitted to Euronoise 2015 conference http://www.euronoise2015.eu/index.htmlentitled “Investigation into the application of an acoustic meta-material for sound attenuation with airflow”. The paper will be based on the high quality final project undertaken by MSc student Leo Weber and supervised by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina. In addition, PhD candidate Gizem Okten has submitted an abstract entitled, "A comparison of the room acoustics of laboratory and real spaces on the vocal load of Opera singers". We are all looking forward to visiting the Netherlands. 

Institute of Acoustics 40th Party

On the 6th November 2014 the Institute of Acoustics held a 40th anniversary party in Soho, London. The Acoustics Group had a good turn out with the staff, students, ex-students and associates in attendance. We were also lucky enough to be taken out for Turkish coffee at Kahve Dunyasi in Piccadilly by one of our students who designed and installed the sound system.