The Rest Is Just Noise

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/

UK Acoustics Network
UKAN+ brings together the internationally leading, but disparate UK acoustics research community.

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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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Welcome to the Episode 2 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have a very special guest with us - Ms Angela Lamacraft from Sustainable Acoustics. Angela is working on how to make buildings acoustically pleasing for people who are working in them and the people who are living in them. She looks at the different types of materials that are used and how to better the performance of buildings.  She is also a working mum, working part time, trying to balance her life as a mother, spending time with her children, as well as becoming a successful acoustician in industry.



Find Angela at:
https://www.sustainableacoustics.co.uk/our-people
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/angela-lamacraft-65017a29

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For today's episode we went on a walk through a maze of alleyways in Central London to meet Stuart Fowkes, the founder of Cities and Memory, and to learn firsthand about this fantastic international platform for promoting urban sound and its impact on society.

Check out Cities and Memory webpage and consider taking part in many exciting projects, whether as a recordist, a composer, or both.

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Your hosts Francesco, Andrew and Tin went to the 3rd edition of the Urban Sound Symposium, locally organised by researchers at La Salle Campus Barcelona this April.

As expected, it was a truly lovely event featuring the protagonists of the most recent developments in the field, some of which we have already had the honour of hosting in our previous episodes, such as Aural Diversity with John Drever, Ep.No.9 with Prof Gascia Ouzuonian and Dr Ruth Bernatek, Ep.4 "Musikiosk, Misters, and More!" with Dan Steele and Edda Bild and Up and Down the Soundscape Scales with Sarah Payne!

So for today we are giving you 9 short interviews with some fantastic presenters in the poster section (Richard Yanaky,  Josep Lorca-Bofi, Merel Ursem, Trond Maag, Sven Anderson, Marc Freixes, Laura Estévez-Mauriz), Rosa Alsina Pagès as the organiser and Edda Bild as the organiser of the Early Careers Professionals in Sound Workshop...  with Pierre Aumond and Tin on the piano.

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Today we celebrate the #INWED23 with the first episode in our new special series Women in Acoustics #WiA, led by Dr Hasina Begum, EDI Champion for the UK Acoustics Network (UKAN+).

But what have bubbles to do with it? Apparently everything. 

We talk with Eleanor Stride about what bubble acoustics are and how being an exceptional woman has set her career in acoustics.

Prof. Eleanor Stride is the Statutory Professor of Biomaterials in the Departments of Engineering Science and the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences. She specialises in the fabrication of nano and microscale devices for targeted drug delivery.

https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/eleanor-stride/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Stride

https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/fellowship/new-fellows-2017/eleanor-stride

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Stop - listen to the sounds around you!

Our today's guest is Marcel Cobussen, Professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy at Leiden University. Marcel has recently published his book 'Engaging with Everyday Sounds'. It's a journey to rediscover sounds around us and transform how we listen.

We'll talk about what is an everyday sound, the politics and philosophy surrounding urban sounds, and how Marcel has integrated his own sonic experiences into a book.

We begin with a collection of sounds from Marcel's own journey from Rotterdam to London to bring you this episode. Bon voyage!


Find Marcel at Leiden University.
Have a look at the Journal of Sonic Studies.
Find Marcel's new book at Open Book Publishers.

UK Acoustics Network 
UKAN brings together the internationally leading, but disparate UK acoustics research community.

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Twitter: @JustNoisePod

Find our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/
Twitter: @JustNoisePod