LSBU Diploma Student awarded Best Diploma Project by the ANC

 

he Association of Noise Consultants (ANC) has recently announced the best IOA Diploma final project Prize winner for the 2028-19 cohort. The winner is LSBU 2018-19 Diploma ex- student Paul Roberts. Paul’s final project was entitled Sound Propagation from Lightwells. The well deserved  award consists  of a book of choice,  prize money and an invitation to attend and present at the  ANC award ceremony. The project supervisor Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina and the IOA Diploma committee and are delighted for Paul’s achievement. Well done Paul.

Reimagining the Orchestra Pit at the Royal Opera House

A Ricoh Theta V 360 degree camera has been purchased for use on the Royal Opera House project. The 360 camera together with the Oculus Rift will be used to recreate a virtual orchestra pit by PhD candidate Eric Ballestero. Eric has written scripts for the Unity engine to reimagine the pit for the musicians to enjoy and state a preference.  
 

Nature in Lockdown at the Natural History Museum

 

The work of the Quiet Project has been included in a new exhibit at the Natural History Museum. The exhibition is entitled, "Nature in Lockdown", and Nature: liberated by Lockdown. We hope in the fullness of time the work becomes part of a permanent exhibit.

Acoustic kit available for collection for Masters students

 Under COVID conditions new instrumentation has been purchased for "Lab at Home" style experiments for the Masters students. The kit is now ready for collection from the Acoustics Laboratory Faraday Wing FW09. We hope the kit does the job, as this is the first time ever this has been tried!

Paper accepted for the IOA Virtual Conference - Acoustics 2020

 

The Institute of Acoustics is going on-line for Acoustics 2020. On Friday 9th October Professor Stephen Dance will present the work of PhD candidate Doug Shearer and former PhD student Georgia Zepidou  during the Speech and Hearing Session in the afternoon. The paper is entitled, "Sound exposure of staff at a conservatoire". This work was undertaken last autumn when people could meet- so it should bring back happy memories!

Paper accepted for IOA Virtual Conference- Acoustics 2020

 

A paper submitted to the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) conference ACOUSTICS 2020  has been recently accepted for the conference proceedings. The paper is entitled “Repeatability of the balloon pop as a sound source in a room”. It has been written by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina and LSBU MSc Acoustics student Pedro Vazquez-Barrera. The national conference will take place virtually online on 5,6, 8 and 9^th October 2020. Luis and Pedro hope to meet you online at the conference.

Professor Peter Mapp awarded IOA Engineering Medal

 

On the 16th September 2020 Professor Peter Mapp was awarded the Institute of Acoustics Engineering Medal. The ceremony took place for the first time during a Zoom meeting where IOA President Stephen Turner gave the citation for Professor Mapp. The award is specifically for contribution to acoustical engineering where the winner is normally a Chartered Engineering. Peter's contribution has been on electro-acoustics particularly public address systems, but his seminar was on Ultrasonics!

Doing acoustics COVID style

 

Professor Peter Mapp has been busy investigating the effect on speech intelligibility whilst wearing masks. Something usually only important whilst under going surgery but now... Not sure how much the Binaural Observers (Bobs) have got to say but lets how clear it is!