Former Masters student Nick Brown at IOA 2020

 
During the Speech, Hearing and Biomedical session of the IOA Virtual Acoustics Conference chaired by Dr Haydar Aygun a former Masters student Nick Brown presented his dissertation research. The paper was entitled, "Development of auscultation smartphone app: an investigation into the feasibility of replicating the mechanical auscultation procedure on a smartphone app". Nick now part of the BDP team answered many questions on COVID, sensor position and methodoloy. Well done Nick! 

Steve presents at IOA 2020

 
On the 9th October 2020 Professor Stephen Dance presented at the Institute of Acoustics Virtual Conference. The research was undertaken by PhD candidate Doug Shearer using the techniques developed by Georgia Zepidou in late 2019. The paper was entitled, "Sound exposure of staff at a conservatoire". Many questions were asked over chat which he hoped were answered clearly.

Luis presents at IOA 2020

On 8th October 2020 Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina presented a paper to IOA ACOUSTICS 2020 online conference.The accepted paper for the proceedings is entitled “Repeatability of the balloon pop as a sound source in a room” written in collaboration with MSc Acoustics student Pedro Vazquez-Barrera. Luis enjoyed the opportunity to answer several questions posed from the interested virtual audience and the chair of the session

 

Welcome to the 2020-21 IOA Diploma Course

The 2020-21 IOA Diploma course at LSBU has successfully commenced. Course director Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina welcomed students and introduced the course remotely online. This is seventh time that LSBU runs the IOA Diploma course since it was reinstated in Sept 2013. Eleven students have joined this  2020-21 intake.  This cohort has a varied composition of students from diverse professional and academic background comprising of Music Technology, Audio Engineering, Environmental Science and Architecture students. Due to the current COVID19 pandemic and following official guidance and restrictions,  this year will be the first time we’ll run the Diploma in hybrid mode. This means that’s a large part of teaching and learning will be online with some on-campus lab experiments carried out face to face. We wish you a great learning experience and enjoyable time at LSBU

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.