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How do we implement soundscape design in practice? What tools are available for a soundscape designer? And when should it even be considered? And what's the difference between a landscape design approach and an engineering approach? All this, and more, we're going to discuss with today's guest, Gunnar Cerwén. Through his work looking at the soundscape of Japanese gardens, we're going to explore just how soundscape actions can be considered in practical design.

Have a look at Gunnar's Soundscape Design Tool.

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Today we talk with Professor of Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art, John Drever, about what aural diversity is in the first place and how it all started, from paper towels to Kafka.

Find John's and Andrew's book Aural Diversity @ Routledge.

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Recently Andrew defended his PhD thesis so we came up with this episode to celebrate him. Andrew has stepped down from his hosting role, for this episode only, and came along carrying his jazz trombone to record one or two licks and talk his coding work, predictive soundscape modelling, and promote his rigorous probabilistic approach to soundscape - enabling engineers to finally start using it.

Check out Andrew at his webpage.
If you're into visualising soundscape data, download Andrew's soundscapy, a python library for soundscape assessments.

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

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In early July 2022 Tin attended the Acoustics of Ancient Theatres Symposium in Verona, Italy. In today's episode, we took a nostalgic look back and talked Greek and Roman ancient theatres in modern cities, Italian Opera, British parliament and beyond! If you bear with us, you'll also find that the episode features some binaural samples depicting a summer in Verona - headphones recommended!

We recorded this a few weeks after the conference and obviously can't cover everything - if you think we missed something important be sure to let us know on Twitter @JustNoisePod

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

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We've talked about "musical drones" in one of our previous episodes. Well, this time we decided to investigate this idea a bit further as we look into Melbourne's underground and seek out the soundscape potential a humble air conditioning unit (well, four of them actually) can offer.

We had a chance to put our hands on Jordan Lacey during his busy research tour and speak about sonic ruptures and stitches, and also his new book Urban Roars.

Check out Jordan's books:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-roar-9781501360596/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sonic-rupture-9781501309977/

Check out hidden Jordan's sounds:
https://hiddensounds.bandcamp.com

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Today we're bringing you right into the conversation with us by recording the episode on a binaural head.

We're going to be speaking with a Professor in Psychology Mats Nilsson about his work on studying sound perception and psychoacoustics of blind and sighted people.

Find Mats at the Stockholms universitet.

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How much is a decibel worth? Can you put a price on sound quality?

From house prices to heart attacks, from airplane noise to church bells, sound costs us money and years of our lives but can also bring value. How to quantify the value of that is difficult.

Today we're speaking with Like Jiang, a Research Fellow at University of Leeds, about how we value soundscapes. We are getting deep in the weeds about how to quantify the cost of noise, what methods are used and why it matters anyway.

Find Like at the University of Leeds.

Find the latest Like's paper - Ten questions concerning soundscape valuation published in Building and Environment.

More details on transport noise valuation here.

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The lockdowns due to COVID-19 had a huge impact on our urban environments and the sounds of our cities. In one of our recent publications we wanted to have a look at not just how much did those sound levels decrease but how would people have perceived this change in their urban soundscape.

Come along with us as we take a little deviation into our own research and talk about the computer model that we've built, based of the recordings made in London and Venice to predict how people probably would have perceived these soundscapes during the lockdown.

Read the papers we are talking about in JASA and in Noise Mapping.

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Notre-Dame de Paris is famous for its music - from the famous bells to its three pipe organs. But did you know the building itself has influenced how Western music developed? Today (actually nearly five months ago, but who's counting?) we're speaking with Sarabeth Mullins, a researcher at Sorbonne Université about her research into how the cathedral of Notre-Dame has shaped vocal music through the centuries.

Following the fire of 2019, we've seen a renewed interest in understanding and conserving the cultural heritage of the cathedral.  Much of this work has tracked the various stages of development and construction that the cathedral has been in over the years. Building on this, Sarabeth is experimenting with how the acoustical characteristics of the cathedral at different periods may have shaped how singers and composers adapted their music to the building and how music and building evolved together.

We hope you enjoy this special episode, recorded in November 2021 at the ASA Conference in Seattle!

Follow Sarabeth on Twitter: @SarabethMullins
Read more from Sarabeth: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9610851
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In early December 2021 our host Andrew attended the Seattle meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and now walks us through the highlights of the conference. We talked about electric vehicles additive sounds, deep learning for audio classification, social isolation for older people with sensory loss during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and more! The proceedings of the ASA meeting can be found at this link: https://acousticalsociety.org/program-of-181st-meeting-of-the-acoustical-society-of-america/

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