Audiometric Testing of the Royal Academy of Music students

 

Over the past three weeks 304 Royal Academy of Music students have undergone audiometric screening tests at the Acoustics Laboratory of London South Bank University. This is the 9th year of testing with over 2900 having been tested. For the first time we had a Baroque Cellist play for us!

BBC Click visit the Anechoic Chamber

On Friday 18th September Laura Lewington from the BBC TV programme Click visited the Acoustic Laboratory of London South Bank University. A piece was filmed to illustrate heart monitoring technology for the show. It will be broadcast at the end of September 2015.

Royal Academy of Music Vocalists Monitored for Vocal Strain

Over the past two weeks PhD candidate Gizem Okten has been monitoring the vocal load of 30 students from the Royal Academy of Music. The students visted the acoustics labs of London South Bank University where the effect on the voice of performing under different acoustic conditions was measured. We wish Gizem well on the writing up of her thesis.

Dr Dance gives a guest lecture at ISVR

On the 10th and 11th September 2015 Dr Stephen Dance visited ISVR at the University of Southampton. This was the 12th year the lecture has been given on architectural acoustics to the short course entitled, Advanced Course in Noise Control. As ever, dinner was arranged down at the docks where fellow lecturers were pursuing a love of food and drink!

Seminars to the Royal Academy of Music students

Over the 9th and 10th September four acoustics related seminars were given to the students of the Royal Academy of Music by Dr Stephen Dance. This was the 8th year such educational materials have been disseminated to undergraduate and postgraduate students. This year was tricky with all the on going construction work due to the refurbishment of the theatre.

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".