The Rest Is Just Noise

Welcome to the Episode 6 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have Professor Mariana Lopez with us. Mariana is a Latin American researcher based in the UK, specialising in sound design and accessibility, as well as acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes. She has a background in music and sound design and we were very excited to chat about medieval video gaming!

Find Mariana at https://marianajlopez.com/.

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For today's episode, our hosts Francesco and Andrew met up with Prof Catherine Guastavino in Ottawa, during the May meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

They will be talking about the science and beauty of Sounds In The City - la ville sonore - easily one of the most famous research projects in the soundscape community that has been running for 10 years now. So, how it all started? What's the role of music here? What's the role of noise? And what does the rest have to do with international standards? Stay tuned to find out.

Find Catherine at McGill University.

Checkout The Sounds In The City project, including blog posts and published research outputs.

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Welcome to the Episode 5 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have a very special guest with us - Reena Mahtani.  Reena is a Senior Acoustic Engineer at Sandy Brown Associates. We shall delve into Reena's personal and professional experiences, her international travels, and everything which helped her develop as an expert in occupational noise and sound measurements and a working mother, balancing her work life with her family.

Find Reena at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/reenamahtani/?originalSubdomain=uk

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...If you're sitting, come to me...

In today's episode we meet the soundscape trespasser and researcher, Dr Bethan Prosser, who is resisting the never-ending waves of gentrification on the English seaside through sound and participatory listening. 

Find Bethan at University of Brighton.

Follow her on X: @bethanmathiasp and LinkedIn.

Check out Bethan's upcoming chapter Listening to Gentrification  and her PhD Thesis.

Also a paper on community-university collaborations.
 

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Welcome to the Episode 4 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have a wonderful guest with us - Professor Alice Eldridge from University of Sussex. Alice is a Professor of Sonic Systems (Music) and a musician. We are going to talk about her love for music and her curious mind which has led her to a foundation interest in sound, and moving in between the strictly defined academic disciplines.


Find Alice at:
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p127749-alice-eldridge

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For this episode, Andrew recorded an interview with Maggie McMullin, a researcher at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Indeed, this episode is about complex (natural) auditory scenes, but - what makes them so complex? Why we need machine learning tools to analyse them? How to start looking into them in the first place?

This conversation took place at the ASA May event in Chicago, Illinois, but it's about everywhere and everything you can hear from Nevada to Wisconsin.

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Sounds, and then soundscape and planning and then urban sensory planning.

We are expanding on our usual scope on sounds towards smell and sensory environments.

Today's guest is Jieling Xiao, a Reader in Architecture and Sensory Environments at Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University.

Find Jieling at Birmingham City.
Read Jieling's paper about a participatory soundscape planning framework.

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Welcome to the Episode 3 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have a very special guest with us - Helen Sheldon from RBA Acoustics. Helen is a charted engineer and Director at RBA Acoustics,  who actively promotes acoustics as a STEM subject speaking in schools and universities and promoting engineering to a wider public.


Find Helen at:
https://www.rba-acoustics.co.uk/team/helen-sheldon/

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Welcome to The Rest Is Just Noise, a monthly podcast about what do architects & acousticians, researchers & artists, engineers & academics have to say about the science and beauty of sounds in cities and landscapes. So, is there a better place to look for those answers than in the Laboratory of the Future, the 18th edition of the world-famous exhibition on architecture that’s being held every even year in Venice since the 1980, the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2023?

For this episode, we have sent Tin to travel to the north of Adriatic to visit the Radio Utopia, a laboratory of sound that took place first week of August inside the French pavilion and this year’s project the Ball Theatre. There, we found Carlotta Darò and Nicolas Tixier, the curators of Radio Utopia, and talked beyond just the glamour of multimedia at world exhibitions, discussing the importance of architectural atmospheres. 

Carlotta is a Lecturer at ENSA Paris Malaquais and a researcher at ETH Zürich, and Nicolas is the director of the CRESSON, Grenoble. So, in this episode, we are bringing you first a brief audio runthrough the program with Carlotta and finally the conversation with Carlotta and Nicolas, taking place within the soundscape of Les Nouvelles du Monde, News of the World, a collaboratory sound installation.

More info about Radio Utopia.
After Venice, Radio Utopia will be live in Paris in mid October.

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