Photo: Allan Kilpatrick (RCAHMS) Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at Salford University in the UK, recently visited and enormous former oil storage tank in Ross Shire in the Highlands of Scotland, where he recorded an incredible broadband reverberation time of 75 seconds across all the frequencies. It was 30 seconds at mid frequencies and […]
Inspiring travel guide to ever increasing sonic wonders
We highlighted the very interesting Sonic Wonders initiative several years ago when Professor Trevor Cox initiated the website which provides a guide and reference for sonic wonders around the world.However with technology advancing so fast, allowing us to record and film on everyday devices with much higher quality than before and these devices tend to […]
Key International Acoustic Conferences in 2014
Here are some of the most significant International acoustic conferences coming up in 2014…. If you are hoping to present, abstracts need to be in soon for ICBEN & BNAM!ICBEN 2014, the 11th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, will be held in Nara, Japan from 1-5th June. The Congress is co-organized […]
Acoustic inspiration from a South African classroom
Andries van Renssen, Principal at Abbots College in Pretoria East, South Africa. Interesting to listen to how different the Vuvuzela sounds in a classroom with poor acoustics vs a classroom with very good acoustics. In fact the school described the transformation from an “acoustically hopeless” room into an effective learning environment in Abbotts College.Ancy Atticula, […]
Clean Industry magazine now online
ECO for sustainable design- Clean Industry, aims to deal with the subject of sustainable design beyond an aesthetic angle to focus on the practical aspects also– concentrating on function, people and on their wellbeing.It’s purpose is to raise awarness about the value of good acoustics accompanied by other useful information and advice for making or […]
Acoustics in TABS classrooms seminar films
Adrian James – Director AJA You can now watch the three filmed presentations on our Acoustic Bulletin YouTube, from the seminar held earlier this summer at the Saint-Gobain Innovation Centre in London. Increasingly Green Buildings” utilising Thermally Active Building Systems (or TABS) have specific acoustic challenges with potential increased low frequency reverberance and overall sound […]
Are you going to Internoise 2013 in Austria?
Starting on Sunday the 15-18th September, INTER-NOISE 2013, the 42nd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, will be held at the International Congress Centre in Innsbruck, Austria. The theme of the congress is Noise Control for Quality of Life and it is sponsored by the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE), and […]
How we listen is related to our brain activity
Photo: Hear-it.org Researchers Molly Henry and Jonas Obleser from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have discovered that our hearing depends on the exact timing of our brain’s rhythms. According to an article in Hear-it.org our hearing ability, behaviour and perception changes due to different environmental rythyms which in turn influence the way we listen. […]
Seminar about acoustics in TABS classrooms
This Acoustics in TABS Classrooms Seminar on Thursday 27th June, will be held at the Saint-Gobain Innovation Centre in London. Thermally Active Building Systems (or TABS) which utilise exposed thermal mass for temperature stabilisation are increasing as an educational building type due to energy efficiency and potential reduced running costs. However TABS buildings have specific […]
IOA Spring conference – Teachers voice strain and going beyond Reverberation Time
From last months IOA Spring Conference, Jack Harvie-Clark (photo above) of Apex Acoustics discussed his recent investigations into the potential advantages of sound strength “G” and speech clarity “C50” measurements when compared to reverberation time as measurements of classroom acoustics. Also interviewed is Nick Durup of Sharps Redmore and London South Bank University, who discusses […]
