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Across AcousticsAdvances in SoundscapeA lot has changed in the twelve years since JASA's first special issue on soundscape research. This episode, we talk to the editors of the recent special issue on Advances in Soundscape: Emerging Trends and Challenges in Research and Practice, Francesco Aletta (University College London), Cynthia Tarlao (McGill University), Tin Oberman (University College London), and Andrew Mitchell (University College London), to discuss these changes, which range from developments in understanding indoor soundscapes, cultural dimensions of soundscape assessment, perceptual assessment tools, and the use of virtual technologies. Read all the articles from the special issue he...
2025-09-2950 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseSpectres, Camouflage & Unruly Sound with Fiona SmythIn the beginning there was a morass of Unruly Sound but then came the Acousticians. The pistols were fired.To record the introduction for today's episode, Francesco and Tin went to St Paul's Cathedral in London, looking for a suitable sonic background for this episode, which we recorded in October 2024 in Cambridge with Fiona Smyth. We hope you will enjoy a conversation about the history of modern acoustics as Fiona leads us from the beginning of the first acoustic experiments and early acoustic materials to using soundscape to camouflage submarines.Find Fiona's fascinating b...
2025-07-0143 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseSoundscape Odyssey Québécois with Edda BildBen là, we recorded this episode during the two days in May 2024 while travelling through Montreal, Québec (CA). Edda Bild (la ville sonore) led us from one luring soundscape intervention site to another. Francesco, Tin and Andrew applied field recording and field rant techniques, in situ, to stay focused on their mission.We hope you will enjoy this sound collage of ambiances and witful insights from Edda and your favourite hosts. We start from Le Plateau-Mont-Royal and then visit the City and Quartier des Spectacles, exploring microsoundscapes and water features in quite some depth.
2025-05-3127 min
Helping Families Be HappyCooking Smarter, Not Harder: Simple Tips for Effortless Meals with Jason GoldsteinIn this episode of the Helping Family Be Happy podcast, host Adina Oberman welcomes guest Jason Goldstein, also known as Chop Happy, a chiropractor and food blogger, to discuss his new book, "101 Kitchen Secrets". Jason shares his culinary passion,
offering simple hacks to make cooking easier and more enjoyable. They discuss various kitchen hacks, including sheet pan meal prep and using a lint roller for cleanup. The episode aims to help listeners save time, money, and effort in the kitchen, while also discussing the topic of making pizza at home and offering insights into dining in
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2025-03-1214 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseUrban Soundscapes in Microscope with Usue Ruiz Arana, Richard Bentley, Sarah Jones-Morris et al.First of all, thanks for coming!Today's episode was recorded in Microscope, Dalston last June at Usue Ruiz Arana's book launch, and we were lucky that Dan Rea from Periscope kindly introduced us, Usue and her guests.Stay tuned for an enticing conversation on soundwalks, soundscape practices and the future of mutispecies approach to soundscapes with Usue, Richard and Sarah and the very engaged audience - thanks to whose intervention, we end this episode with END (Environmental Noise Directive). Enjoy!Buy Usue's book, "Urban Soundscapes: A Guide to Listening for Landscape Architecture and...
2025-01-3146 min
The Hive Poetry CollectiveS7: E1: Miller Oberman and Dion O'ReillyMiller Oberman and Dion O'Reilly read and discuss Omotara James's "My mother's nerves are shot." and then do a deep dive into Oberman's newest collection, Impossible Things.
Miller Oberman is the author of Impossible Things, forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2024 and The Unstill Ones, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017.
He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Prize, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. Poems from Impossible Things have appeared in The...
2025-01-0659 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseLeft Ear Right Ear with Lola de la MataLeft Ear Right Ear Pink NoiseSome listeners may find some of the sounds in this episode disturbing.In today's episode, we meet with a conceptual sound artist, composer, curator and musician, Lola de la Mata, working with tinnitus, spontaneous auto-acoustic emissions and aural diversity. We talk about how research-informed art shouldn't be pleasant at all cost as we dive in Lola's recent album Oceans on Azimuth and her exploration of her personal objective tinnitus.Find Lola at www.loladelamata.com Listen to Oceans on Azimuth at https://loladelamata.bandcamp.com/
2024-12-1756 min
The Rest Is Just Noise#WiA special series with Jude BreretonWelcome to Episode 7 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have the fabulous Prof. Jude Brereton from the University of York. Jude is a professor in audio and music technologies. We are going to talk about her interests in music, linguistics and acoustic phonetics and how they all tie in together to understand the singing voice in various acoustic spaces. This further goes on to explain her research and teaching which covers audio signal processing, psychoacoustics, spatial audio and virtual acoustics, music performance analysis and voice analysis and synthesis.Find Jude at:
2024-11-0546 min
The Rest Is Just Noise#WiA special series with Mariana LopezWelcome 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/.Find our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/Twitter: @JustNoisePod
2024-07-0751 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseLa ville sonore avec Catherine GuastavinoFor 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.
2024-05-2823 min
The Rest Is Just Noise#WiA special series with Reena MahtaniWelcome 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=ukUK Acoustics NetworkUKAN brings together the internationally l...
2024-04-2942 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseSoundscape Gentrification with Bethan Prosser...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. UK Acoustics NetworkUKAN brings together the internationally leading, but disparate UK acoustics research community.Disclaimer: This pos...
2024-03-2434 min
The Rest Is Just Noise#WiA special series with Alice EldridgeWelcome 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-eldridgeUK Acoustics NetworkUKAN+ brings together the...
2024-02-1448 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseComplex Auditory Scenes with Maggie McMullinFor 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.Find our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/Twitter: @JustNoisePod
2024-02-0122 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseSensory Urbanism with Jieling XiaoSounds, 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.UK Acoustics NetworkUKAN brings together the internationally leading, but disparate UK acoustics research community.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I...
2023-12-2730 min
The Rest Is Just Noise#WiA special series with Helen SheldonWelcome 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 NetworkUKAN+ brings together the internationally leading, but disparate UK acoustics research community.UK Acoustics NetworkUKAN b...
2023-12-2036 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseListening to Landscapes with Usue Ruiz AranaIn today's episode we have some big words in the title and with Usue Ruiz Arana, a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Newcastle University, we are going to revisit some of concepts we have talked about very often:What is a soundwalk?How should we use soundwalks?How do we bring this concept to the cities?Is landscape a superior format to portrait?Find Usue at Newcastle University.Check out Usue's chapter on Soundwalking in the Phonocene: walking, listening, wilding.UK Acoustics NetworkUKAN brings together the internationally leading...
2023-11-2031 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseRadio Utopia: La Biennale di Venezia 23 with Carlotta Darò and Nicolas TixierWelcome 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...
2023-10-0342 min
The Rest Is Just Noise#WiA special series: Sustainable Careers with Angela LamacraftWelcome 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...
2023-09-0436 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseCities and Memory (and Microphones)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.UK Acoustics NetworkUKAN brings together the internationally leading, but disparate UK acoustics research community.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I...
2023-08-2334 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseUrban Sound Symposium 2023Your 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 S...
2023-07-1926 min
The Rest Is Just Noise#WiA special series: Bubbles Everywhere with Eleanor StrideToday 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...
2023-06-1941 min
The Radio 3 DocumentaryTuner of the World"For the next hour, I need your ears". It's 1974 and someone is trying to recruit you for a listening experiment on public radio in Canada. Pioneering Canadian composer and soundscape maestro, R Murray Schafer really wants you to commit: "if you're just listening to this programme casually, you'd better turn it off right now".This audio experiment was part of a series on the CBC - the Canadian Broadcasting Company, called Soundscapes of Canada, consisting of ten hours of soundscape montage, field recordings and lessons in listening. From Church bells, to birdsong, to car horns...
2023-06-1243 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseEngaging with Everyday Sounds and Marcel CobussenStop - 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...
2023-06-0253 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseSayonara SoundscapesHow 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.UK Acoustics NetworkUKAN brings together the internationally leading, but disparate UK acoustics r...
2023-03-0240 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseAural Diversity with John DreverToday 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.Find our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/Twitter: @JustNoisePodFind our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/Twitter: @JustNoisePod
2023-02-0141 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseEngineering SoundscapesRecently 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.UK Acoustics Network UKAN brings together the i...
2022-11-2935 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseHighlights of the Acoustics of Ancient Theatres SymposiumIn 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 @JustNoisePodUK Acoustics...
2022-10-2637 min
The Rest Is Just Noise"Urban Roars" with Jordan LaceyWe'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/
2022-09-2849 min
The Rest Is Just NoiseCan you hear me?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.Find our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/Twitter: @JustNoisePod Find our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/Twitter: @JustNoisePod
2022-07-2737 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseHow much is a decibel worth?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...
2022-06-2857 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseLockdown SoundscapesThe 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...
2022-05-3133 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseThe Songs of Notre-Dame - Special ASA episode with Sarabeth MullinsNotre-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 co...
2022-04-2033 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseASA ReCap - Once Upon A Time In SeattleIn 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/UK Acoustics NetworkUKAN brings together the internationally leading, but disparate UK acoustics research community.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase...
2022-04-1232 minThe Rest Is Just NoisePicnics at the Wall with Pamela JordanThroughout the last year, we've seen a whole bunch of articles, projects and research about how much urban noise was reduced due to COVID-19 lockdowns. This is our 2nd episode in a series looking at the impacts of those lockdowns worldwide on sound in cities.Today we're speaking for the 2nd time with Pamela Jordan, a researcher at University of Amsterdam, about her project looking, in a very interesting way, at how the soundscape at the Berlin Wall Memorial changed during lockdown, as it shifted from this tourist space, to a public space.Find Pamela...
2022-01-1137 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseLive from the ASA! Mini-episode with Ronald Altoon - Ethics and Culture in AcousticsThis week Andrew is at the Acoustical Society of America conference in Seattle. Throughout the week, our goal is to bring you some highlights about the talks he found most interesting. At the end of it we'll put together a full episode with that run down, but Andrew is also sitting down for some short mini-episodes with the acousticians, architects and researchers presenting to dig deeper into their fascinating work. We're really excited about all of the guests we have coming up so, let's get into our first of this series of special interviews!Ronald Altoon has been...
2021-12-0219 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp. 12 Soundscape LegaciesWe've talked a lot about soundscapes: how we perceive them, how we measure them, how we can predict them... but all of these soundscapes existed. What about the ones that - like purgatory - are just somewhere in our minds or floating out there in space? These are historic soundscapes - ones which used to exist but no longer do.So the question is - how do we talk about those? How do we measure those?Today we are speaking with Pamela Jordan, a researcher at University of Amsterdam, about historic soundscapes and her experience...
2021-11-0240 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp. 11 Mechanical Birds - Drones and Soundscapes with Dr. Antonio TorijaIn our very first episode, we learned that not all natural sounds are equal, and not all of them are pleasant. In today's episode, we'll talk about how not all mechanical sounds are equal and not all of them are necessarily bad. As we move into the "age of the future" we expect to see drones flying around our cities, dropping off packages and making our skies look like those of Coruscant from Star Wars. But what do these drones sound like? Are they good or bad? What do they mean for the soundscapes of our cities?...
2021-10-0541 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseLockdown Soundscapes - The Stockholm Syndrome with Romain RumplerThis month we're kicking off a new series of episodes looking at how the COVID-19 lockdowns impacted urban soundscapes around the world! Throughout this past year, we've seen countless articles, podcasts, and twitter threads about how cities went quiet as people were forced to stay at home. We hope to bring you the in depth stories directly from the scientists who were conducting this research. Hopefully we'll be able to answer questions like 'What do our cities sound like when people aren't using them?' 'How did people's perceptions of urban sound change throughout this period?' and 'Just...
2021-09-0736 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp. No. 9 with Prof Gascia Ouzounian and Dr Ruth BernatekNumber 9, number 9, number 9...As promised, today we're back where we left as we talk with Associate Professor Gascia Ouzounian, joined by her colleague, a Bartlett alumna Dr Ruth Bernatek. They reflect on their ongoing ERC project Soncities at University of Oxford that brings together sound theorists, urban sociologists, architects, urban designers and sound artists to develop critical approaches to sonic urbanism. Their goal is to foster socially conscious approaches to sonic practice in forms of research, analysis and design.Oh, and there's a chat about the unavoidable John Lennon, oops I meant Xenakis.S...
2021-08-0240 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp. 8 "Stereophonica" with Prof Gascia OuzounianToday we understand sound is inherently spatial. It interacts with and informs us about the space it - and we - exist in. But as recently as 1900, scientists held that sound itself could not relay "spatial attributes" and that the human ear had physiological limitations that prevented it from receiving spatial information. How did we go from there to our current understanding of spatial sound? In her new book, "Stereophonica", Oxford Associate Professor of Music, Gascia Ouzounian, traces the development of this spatial understanding from its modern birth, through science, war, music, and finally to our cities. I...
2021-07-0629 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp. 7 Circumplex Conversations - Measuring Soundscape Perception with Simone TorresinThis month we return to one of our favourite topics - how do you actually measure perception? We trace the development of the circumplex model of affect from it's start in 1980, to it's first application in soundscape in 2010. Finally we speak with Simone Torresin, who has done the most recent expansion of this idea by deriving a soundscape circumplex model for indoor environments. Are you just confused about what a 'circumplex' even is? Well, listen along and we'll walk you through it!Resources:Indoor soundscape assessment: A principal components model of acoustic perception in r...
2021-06-0141 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp. 6 S̶t̶a̶r̶ Sound Wars with Dr Linda O'KeeffeHappy May the Fourth! In this episode, we're speaking with Linda O'Keeffe, a sound artist and head of the School of Art at Edinburgh College of Art. Her work on gender inclusion in the sonic arts has led to the development of the organisation Women In Sound, Women On Sound, whose goal is to make visible women who work in the multitudinous areas of sound - from music technology to sound art, sound & society, the politics of sound, and every are in between.Today we'll talk with Linda about her journey in sound, her research on t...
2021-05-041h 00The Rest Is Just NoiseEp. 5 Highlights of the Urban Sound Symposium 2021This week marked the second Urban Sound Symposium, held virtually! Featuring keynotes with 30 speakers, panel discussions, and 27 posters, the Symposium brought together some of the leading researchers in urban sound and soundscape. In today's bonus episode, Andrew and Francesco discuss their personal favourite bits from the week as well as talking, once again, with Edda Bild about the extended discussion around representation, inclusiveness, and fairness in urban sound research that was sparked at the Symposium. We recorded this very quickly right after the final day and obviously can't cover everything - if you think we missed something...
2021-04-2636 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp. 4 "Musikiosk, Misters, and More!" with Dan Steele and Edda BildToday we have a just-long-enough chat with Drs. Edda Bild and Dan Steele from McGill University about their various soundscape intervention projects. They'll take us through installing free-to-use speakers in a small park in Montreal to testing out different water feature installations, with many rambling rants in between!Papers discussed: Soundtracking the Public Space: Outcomes of the Musikiosk Soundscape InterventionFind more from Dan and Edda here: https://www.sounds-in-the-city.org/en/overview/@villesonoreFind our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/Twitter: @JustNoisePodUK Acoustics NetworkUKAN brings together...
2021-04-061h 13The Rest Is Just NoiseSonic Appropriation and the UK Policing Bill with Edda BildIn light of the UK's newly proposed policing bill which aims to impose noise limits and other new restrictions on protests, we bring you a special episode. Recorded a month before news of the bill came out, our host Andrew spoke with sociologist and soundscape researcher Edda Bild about 'sonic appropriation' - how people, particularly protesters and those in marginalised communities, can exert control over their sonic environments. Find out why it matters that people can exert this sonic appropriation over their spaces and some of the history of how it has been regulated and restricted. This...
2021-03-2325 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp.3 2020 was The Year of Sound (among other things) with Marion Burgess, Michael Taroudakis, & Jean-Dominique PolackThe International Year of Sound is a global initiative to highlight the importance of sound in all aspects of life and to promote an understanding of sound-related issues at the national and international level. 2020 was the International Year of Sound, but it may have been just a tad overshadowed by certain other events that year. Luckily, it carried on and adapted, and has been extended into 2021. This episode, we speak with the steering committee behind it and learn why the Year of Sound is important and what to look forward to in 2021!Find the IYOS...
2021-03-0245 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp.2 Up and Down the Soundscape Scales with Dr Sarah PayneHow do we measure sound perception? How can scientists quantify something so subjective?Dr Sarah Payne walks us through how scales for soundscape are adapted from visual research. We'll discuss a whole range of scales and theories, like Attention Restoration Theory (ART), Perceived Restorative-ness Scale (PRS), Restorative Components Scale (RCS). But really, the highlight might just be her tips on creating a great acronym, like DESTRESS - (Designing and Engineering Soundscapes To enable Restorative Environments for Sustainable Societies) - bravo!Find more from Sarah at @ThinkSnowflakesFollow the DeStress project at @DeStressRestore and https...
2021-02-0240 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp.1 "The Birds" with Dr Ellie RatcliffeToday we speak with Dr Ellie Ratcliffe, "Queen of the Birds"! Can bird sounds help us recover psychologically? What do we even mean by that? And what is it about specific sounds that we find pleasing? Ellie will walk us through all that and more as we discuss her paper Predicting the Perceived Restorative Potential of Bird Sounds Through Acoustics and Aesthetics.Find more from Ellie at @el_ratcliffeFind our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/Twitter: @JustNoisePodUK Acoustics NetworkUKAN brings together the internationally leading, but disparate...
2021-01-0543 minThe Rest Is Just NoiseEp.0 A Noisy PreludeMeet our hosts and our podcast! In this introductory episode we introduce Andrew, Francesco, and Tin and clue you in to what you can expect to hear about on The Rest Is Just Noise. You'll hear about how each of our hosts found their way from architecture, physics, and music into the world of sound and some of the interesting stories about sound that they have encountered along the way. Stay tuned for the first episode "The Birds" with Dr. Ellie Ratcliffe, coming out January 5th!Find our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/
2021-01-0114 min