On the 26th April 2023 Professor Stephen Dance and Ruben Vasquez run a pilot study on on-site hearing assessment at the Royal Academy of Music. The Patron's Room was the venue and 20 students were tested using our new Kudawave audiometer and Path Medical's Otoacoustic Emissions kit. Things didn't quite work out but solutions were found!
On the 21st April 2023 Part 2 of the Art of Being series was held at the Little Ship Club, London. Nine presenters: senior, current and new acousticians gave their career path and some stories of interesting project and challenges. Professor Stephen Dance organised and hosted this inaugural event. The idea was to bring together early career consultants and researchers. Presentations on consultancy, the workings of government, research, enterprise and product development were given. The theme was their was no set path into acoustics and half of acousticians were musicians!
The Long Room at the Oval cricket ground were the hosts for the first Institute of Acoustics awards luncheon. The event held on the 19th April 2023 recognised the COVID backlog of recepiants. Professor Stephen Dance was there as a chair of a standing committee and to read the citation for our former LSBU PhD student Eric Ballestero who received the IOA Young Person's Innovation in Acoustical Engineering award 2021. Unfortunately Eric could not make it, so Steve was drinking for two! Well done for Eric and his Metamaterial based sound diffusers.
On Wednesday 19th April 2023 LSBU Acoustics Research Group and Foster + Partners started collaborating on material testing of different fabrics. Antonella Bevilacqua of the Simulation and Modellig Group came to the lab to undertaken impedance tube measurement of small scale fabrics. Things got off to a rocky start with Professor Stephen Dance having to supply a very large wrench to open the impedance tube to undertaken the absorption and transmission tests!
