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The Rest Is Just Noise

The Rest Is Just Noise

By: Andrew Mitchell Francesco Aletta Tin Oberman
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The Rest Is Just Noise is a monthly podcast exploring the relationship between sound and our cities. Each episode our passionate and excitable hosts (three soundscape researchers) are joined by an expert guest from fields such as acoustics, architecture, and environmental psychology, to discuss their latest work and introduce our audience to the science, beauty, and noise of urban sound.

From the announcement of the 2023 ASA Science Communication Awards for Acoustic Expert Multimedia Winner:

"The Rest is Just Noise Podcast stands out as a remarkable audio journey into the realm of acoustics. With deep knowledge and captivating storytelling, co-hosts Dr. Andrew Mitchell, Dr. Francesco Aletta, and Dr. Tin Oberman explore various acoustical phenomena and their impact on our lives. Through interviews with experts and immersive soundscapes, this podcast educates and entertains listeners, creating a space where the beauty and significance of acoustics are celebrated."


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Episodes
  • Urban Soundscapes in Microscope with Usue Ruiz Arana, Richard Bentley, Sarah Jones-Morris et al.

    Urban Soundscapes in Microscope with Usue Ruiz Arana, Richard Bentley, Sarah Jones-Morris et al.
    Jan 31 2025

    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 Urban Design": https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003202981/urban-soundscapes-usue-ruiz-arana

    Find Usue at Newcastle University.

    Follow microscope on Instagram @micro__scope for more audio delights if you're around Dalston this year.



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    47 mins
  • Left Ear Right Ear with Lola de la Mata

    Left Ear Right Ear with Lola de la Mata
    Dec 17 2024

    Left Ear
    Right Ear
    Pink Noise

    Some 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/



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    56 mins
  • #WiA special series with Jude Brereton

    #WiA special series with Jude Brereton
    Nov 5 2024

    Welcome 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:
    https://www.york.ac.uk/arts-creative-technologies/people/jude-brereton/

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

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

    Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

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    46 mins

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