TheSoundBlog

Building bridges

Why engineers and writers could benefit from working together on stories, as we’ve been doing on the Inventive Podcast.

How engineering is poorly served by its portrayal in the media, and how we’ve teamed up with fiction writers to tackle this in the Inventive Podcast.

How I made a halloumi glass harmonica for a TV demo and played Ode to Joy … just.

Some experiments on clear facemasks we’re doing at Salford University to improve communication for PPE.

The new windows from the 2020 Acoustic Advent run by @trevor_cox @salfordacoustic

Searching (in vain) for whispering gallery effects in Stonehenge. Pretty FDTD simulations and measurements in our Acoustic Scale Model of Stonehenge.

How loud was speech and music inside Stonehenge in 2,200 BC? And what might that say about how the site was used by our ancestors?

An introduction to a new experiment looking at how we respond to artificial voices from BBC R&D and University of Salford.

The Salford Acoustics’ SpatialPodcast plug-in is designed for podcasters wishing to add more dimensional sound to their recordings.

Did the circle of stones cause focussing and discrete echoes within Stonehenge.