Happy Ears for all new Royal Academy of Music students

For the 9th year of the collaboration between the Acoustics Group and the Royal Academy of Music we have organised that every student will receiver a pair of Happy Ears earplugs. These earplugs are new to the market and designed specifically for musicians. We hope the students find them useful!!

MPhil Thesis by Mirko Thulke

On the 30th September 2015 Mirko Thulke will defend his MPhil thesis at Liverpool University. Dr Stephen Dance will act as the external examiner, and is looking forward to reading the thesis entitled, "Head related transfer function calculated using boundary element method for a head and torso simulator".

Research Gate hosts Acoustics Group papers

Research Gate is a useful free to use search tool. The Acoustics Group has uploaded the last 5 years of published papers to the system (the open access model), so that all acousticians can benefit from our research. Hope you enjoy reading the 5 journal papers and 20 conference papers 

Leo to present at IOA Acoustic Design for Sustainable Buildings

Former Masters student Leo Weber, now with BDP, is to present his MSc thesis research results to the Institute of Acoustics half day meeting - Acoustic Design for Sustainable Buildings. His presentation is entitled, "Use of acoustic metamaterials for sound attenutation with airflow. We also wish him luck in his new job!

Visit from Fosters+Partners

On the 30th July Philip Robsinson and Jan Dierckx from Fosters+Partners visited the Acoustics Laboratory and the new Digital Architecture and Robots Lab at London South Bank University. Discussions were held on mutual collaboration opportunitiy combining these two areas of research to produce innovation in the field.

Measurements of the London Symphony Orchestra at the Proms

PhD Candidate Georgia Zepidou has been measuring the personal sound dose of the musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra as part of her research study. The orchestra were playing Prokofiev at the BBC Proms in the Albert Hall on 28th July with three pianists. A very difficult piece to perform!

Pioneering acoustic education initiative article

An article by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina has been accepted for publication in the next issue Sept-Oct 2015 of the IOA Acoustics Bulletin. The article summarises research carried out over the last 10 moths to support an initiative to introduce basic acoustic education into the performance music curriculum. The findings of the research are highly compelling and promising. The initiative if accepted and implemented could be the beginning of having musicians better educated on the most important science behind their art. We hope you enjoy the article.