The Acoustics Group welcome new PhD student Onur Ozkaya

 

Onur Ozkaya has been welcomed as a new acoustics based PhD student. Dr Haydar Aygun is Onur's supervisor. Onur has just defended his PhD RES-2 stage in “Quantitative intelligence in architectural acoustics”.  Just three more years to go!

Royal Academy of Music Hearing Tests

 
For the 15th year the Royal Academy of Music have collaborated with London South Bank University to undertake hearing tests for all new students. Prof Stephen Dance is using a new technique called Otoacoustic Emission to establish at the earliest possible stage any hearing damage to the musicians. This is backed up by the gold standard, Pure Tone Audiometry tests which are regularly undertaken by the students.

First on-line seminar to the new Royal Academy of Music students

 

On the 14th September 2021 Professor Stephen Dance was invited by the Royal Academy of Music to give his annual lecture to the new students. The topic was, "Musicians' Hearing and the Sound of Performance". All the students attended on-line to the 1 hour seminar and many interesting questions were asked relating to musician experience. Many thanka go to Nicola Mutton for organising the event.

Paper on Room Acoustic Metamaterials published in Applied Sciences

 

Dr Eric Ballestero has had his third paper from his PhD thesis published. The article was accepted by Applied Sciences and was entitled, "Scattering evaluation of EquivalentSurface Impedances of Acoustic Metamaterial in Large FDTD Volumes using RLC Circuit Modelling". The paper describes how very fine structural detail can be accurately modelled even in auditoria using wave based room acoustic simulations. Outstanding team work by staff from University of Le Mans, London South Bank University and University of Valencia!  

400 Happy Ears Arrive for Music Students

For 2021/22 400 pairs of Happy Ears have been purchased for every new Royal Academy of Music student. For the 15th year the students will be visiting the Acoustics Laboratory from mid September where there ears will be sized and given (for free) appropriate hearing protection. Happy Ears were specifically designed as musician hearing protection.

New Norsonic Intensity Probe

 

The Acoustics Group recently purchased a Norsonic Nor150 dual channel sound analyser. This will provide a backup to our existing Norsonic Nor121 analyser. In addition, we have purchased the Nor1290 sound intensity probe which will be used to assess sound power output in accordance to ISO 9614. We hope the apprentices and students make good use of the kit and please don't break this delicate instrument! 

Doug Shearer completes his doctorate

It is with great pleasure that we announce that PhD candidate Doug Shearer has completed his doctorate. Doug joined us in 2016 to study, "Case Studies in the absorption of low frequency sound in music rooms". He always did like bass. Well done Dr Doug!