Webinar on Environmental Acoustics Assessments in Urban and Suburban Contexts

 
On the 15th November 2022 a special webinar has been organised to promote a special issue of the International Journal of Environment Research in Public Health. This is the 8th of the series and is to celebrate and promote an issue on "Environmental Acoustics Monitoring and Soundscape".  Professor Stephen Dance has been invited to talk on theQuietProject. Hope you can join us on-line. 

Masters students present to IOA London Branch

 

On the 13th July 2022 two Masters students from London South Bank University presented their dissertation to the Institute of Acoustics London Branch. Dr Haydar Aygun introduced Ekim Bakirci who presented his research on, "An audio based vehicle classifier using a convolved neural network". This work allowed traffic flow data to be estimated for rural and semi-rural road where no traffic flow data is available. Ekim was a full time student is now employed by AECOM. Michael Fort  presented his dissertation on, "How much acoustic diffusion is too much in a concert hall?". Michael used ODEON to model famous halls and found strong early lateral reflections were the key to good acoustics. Michael was a part-time student emplyed by Rambol. They both will be presenting at Inter-Noise 22, in Gasglow.   

Abstract submitted to Musical Acoustics Meeting on the Acoustics of a Sitzprobe Rehearsal

 

An abstract has been submitted by Professor Dance to the Institute of Acoustics Musical Acoustics Meeting entitled, "Acoustics of Sitzprobe Rehearsals". This presentation will cover the difference between a tradtional Opera rehearsal and a Sitzprobe rehearsal under the topic "Recent Developments in Musical Acoustics". The meeting will be held at Birmingham City University on 19th October 2022. See you there! 

Royal Academy of Music Exit Audiometric and Otoacoustic hearing assessments

 

The Exit hearing assessment for the Royal Academy of Music were completed by Professor Stephen Dance on 7th July 2022. Each year 30 final year students are randomly selected to be retested. This year we used both audiometry and otoacoustic emission testing to establish hearing acuity. The students, as ever, past with flying colours!  

Bahrain ASU Architecture students attend seminar on acoustics

 

As part of a well stablished partnership between LSBU and British University in Egypt (BUE) and Applied Science University in Bahrain (ASU), a Summer School for students of those partner universities is organised annually at the LSBU School of Built environment and Architecture (BEA). Students and staff of ASU BEng(Hons) Architecture Engineering course attended a seminar on, “Acoustics in Architecture” delivered by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina. The engaging session was held on 4th July 2022 and covered basic theory, interactive demos and experiential learning which took place at the different chambers of our Acoustics lab. Vice President of ASU development affairs, Dr Faiza Zitouni, and the students expressed their enjoyment with the inspiring seminar. We hope we can meet again next year!