Friday, 28 September 2018

Dr Dance to present to the Rumford Club

Dr Stephen Dance is the invited speaker at the after dinner club, the Rumford Club, set up to discuss and debate the built environment. This year debate will be around urban wind turbines and their place in the energy mix. The dinner is held at the National Liberal Club in Whitehall, London on the 4th October 2018 at 7pm!

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Uk/European Hearing Conservation Association Founders Meeting

On the 26th September 2018 the Founders' meeting of the UK/European Hearing Conversation Association was held at Starkey Hearing Technologies in Stockport, England. Dr Stephen Dance of the Acoustics Group, London South Bank University was invited by organiser Clare Forshaw. He gave a talk on musicians' hearing at the launch event! 

Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Abstract submitted to Reproduced Sound 2018

Twos abstracts were submitted by PhD candidate Eric Ballestero and by Peter Mapp of the Acoustics Group, London South Bank University for the Institute of Acoustics Annual Reproduced Sound conference Putting Sound in it's Place. This electro-acoustic 3 day conference will be held in Bristol 27-29 November 2018 at the Bristol Hotel. Eric wrote a joint paper with Daniel Castro on the new Virtual Reality plugin for auralisation. Peter working with the University of Derby worked on intelligibility and audience density.

New Virtual Reality plugin for sound developed

On the 8th September 2018 a demonstrate video of a newly developed Acoustics Virtual Reality plugin was uploaded by Daniel Castro of Wood & Grieves Engineers of Australia and PhD candidate Eric Ballestero from the Acoustics Group, London South Bank @university. The auralised voice in various rooms clearly demonstrate the marketing potential of the Virtual Reality plugin!

Monday, 24 September 2018

Student Paper published in Acoustics Bulletin

In the new issue of the Institute of Acoustics Acoustics Bulletin Sept/October 2018 former IOA Diploma and Masters student Paul Forster has written a paper based on his MSc thesis. The paper is entitled, "Investigating Novel Solution for Natural Ventilation- Passive Ventilation and Metamaterials".  It's on pages 50-58. It's a very new idea!

Saturday, 22 September 2018

New London South Bank University Research Brochure

London South Bank University has published their research brochure for 2018 focusing on industry lead applied research collaborations Fourteen case studies are included one of which is on the work of the Acoustics Group with various World leading organisations involved in classic music. Dr Stephen Dance is working with: the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Opera House, Henry Wood Hall, BBC Singers, and London Philharmonic Orchestra and is hoping to publish the work later this year..

Paper on the Acoustics of Feathers Published

Heliyon, Elsevier on-line journal, recently published our paper on, "Novel sound absorption materials from air laid non woven feather fibres". The paper was written as a joint effort  with Imperial College, London and Dr Stephen Dance of the Acoustics Group of London South Bank University.