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International Year of Sound 2020
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The Institute of Acoustics will be presenting to the UK Parliamentary and Scientific Committee on the subject of Noise. They will give 3 x 15 minute presentations outlining both the positive and negative economic, social and health implications of sound. The presentations will be followed by a 30 minutes of questions. Further discussions will follow […]
This public workshop is to create awareness of how the latest digital technologies are providing new approaches that can ease the operational process for public agencies and citizens to better understanding our surrounding aural environment and providing intelligent digital alternatives in sensing and mitigating urban noise. This event is being postponed. The new date will […]
Learn how to measure audio quality of both simple and complex modern audio devices, in both R&D and production environments. Get to know the basics of SoundCheck; one of the world’s most popular audio test software systems, and learn about how to build a test sequence including recommendations for the equipment used. Additionally, you will […]
Study and information event about hearing health, bringing together all the leading experts in the field in Rome, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health. There will be two days of meetings, conferences, data presentations and conferences to which all the leading Italian experts on the subject of hearing health are invited. The event […]
Outreach workshops in local secondary schools
V International Congress sound and audio-visual space. 3rd-5th March 2020 UAM, La casa Encendida, Madrid – Laboratory of Space Concert- 3rd-4th March 2020, MNCARS Madrid – Mixer, collective session ( Body, space, sound, image, technology) 7th March Madrid. – Other events. The Congress “Sound and Audio-visual space” has a scientific part, but there are two […]
Join the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America on Twitter on March 3 at 2 PM EST for a JASA Twitter Chat using #JASAchat. In honor of World Hearing Day, the editors of the Special Issue: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Translating Risk from Animal Models to Real-World Environments will lead a discussion on one of […]
An interactive artwork by Leonel Moura that broadcasts voices from the natural world in the face of the calamitous extinction of species caused by human action. The installation is composed of a set of 20 “cocoons” each filled with an electronic assemblage including a motion sensor, a micro-controller, a memory card, an RGB LED ring […]
After the success of the initiative “NOISE AND THE CITY – L’ANIMA SONORA DELLE CITTÁ” and “A QUIET PLACE – UN POSTO TRANQUILLO”, acoustics experts, doctors, designers and philosophers of sound are again meeting in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence to talk about how an environment can be considered of quality thanks to the presence of […]
The soundscape from Savannah to song, Saturday first part, 10.00 – 13.00 Sounds of Earth. Sound and communication in the animal kingdom second part, 14.30 – 17.30 Origin of song and language. Evolution of the soundscape Humans lived within a natural soundscape until neolithic, that is for 94% of the time of our life on […]
The Mathematics of Waves and Materials research will have a stall at the Big Bang Fair, where visitors can explore the mathematics of sound waves and find out how we can use maths to reduce noise and improve our quality of life!
T3chFest is the conference on innovation of new technologies. It will take place on March 12, 13 and 14 in Leganés (Madrid, Spain). The audience consists of both students and technology professionals and each field of technological innovation is represented in the event with around 3 talks. In this edition, 10 activities will introduce Sound […]
Everything you always wanted to know about sound: how it is formed, how it spreads, how it is measured. Workshops for adults and children. Several interactive experiments (with tablets) will allow you to discover the applications of Fourier analysis developed more than 2 centuries ago. We will discover that Fourier is omnipresent at the heart […]
The annual German Conference on Acoustics – DAGA – takes place in Hannover this year and celebrates its 50th conference anniversary. Around 1300 participants from all parts of Germany and beyond, from the whole range of economic and scientific backgrounds, will join this event to attend sessions, present papers, network, meet colleagues and keep on […]
Annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, including a special session and demonstration related to IYS2020.
Frequently, historical or monumental indoor environments are used for seminars, conferences, assemblies of other public or private initiatives where the quality of listening is of primary importance. Usually, such environments are characterized, for geometric or material reasons, by acoustic conditions not suitable for these requirements, because of the sound reverberation, and their use is consequently […]
Main emphasis of the event will be to invite school children and others and plan for awareness program on health effects of intense sound and protection measures.
The artistic residence “Prospettive Sonore” is realized with the support of the MiBACT (Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism) and SIAE (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers), within the “For those who create” program. He plans to create a 15-day artistic residence for 6 Italian composers under 35, selected through a specific […]
Carlos III University celebrates the World Poetry Day with a meeting of projects that put together sound, poetry and technologies. The interdisciplinary platform “Conjuntos” (supported by Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation) tries to establish dialogues between arts and sciences. One of the main laboratories of the platform is called Dispares, where two people from different […]
The annual meeting of the Danish Acoustical Society with lectures, networking, visits. IYS2020 will be highlighted to all members.
A general public lecture on Cycle les transports du futur (Air transportation of the future). Making quieter aircraft is not a utopia.
The annual conference gives an opportunity to present latest research and exchange of experiences scientists from various research centers of Poland dealing with acoustics and biomedical engineering. The technical program included plenary lectures, invited, contributed and poster papers. The special session will be organized to celebrate the International Year of Sound 2020. An important event […]
The University of Alberta Sound Studies Institute hosts a series of talks with Dr. Joe Dickey, physicist and bluegrass musician. Dr. Dickey is the author of the seminal paper on the acoustical physics of the 5-string banjo. During his visit to the U of A, Dr. Dickey will host an academic presentation on the acoustics […]
For the attention of middle and high school students in the Lyon area. This show presents the physical phenomena of acoustics, based initially on the perception that the spectator may experience. The physical phenomena at the origin of this perception are then analysed thanks to “live” experiments and multimedia supports (photos, videos, animations) commented by […]
Forum Acusticum 20-24 April is a gathering of acousticians held every third year and is being organised in Lyon by the French Acoustical Society on behalf of the European Acoustics Association (EAA). Outreach events related to this conference are being organized by Centre Lyonnais d’Acoustique and include: February 4 / March 12 : Draw your […]
Hands-on demonstrations and interactions with scientists and professionals to learn about the many areas and applications of acoustics.
An intergenerational workshop. What is sound? This workshop will present how sound is produced, how it propagates in its environment and how it is perceived.
From 15:00 to 17:30, at the P10 classroom of the Faculty of Letters, Conference on soundscape, with contributions from experts in the scientific, humanistic and artistic sectors. From 18 to 19:30, at the Auditorium “E. Morricone ”, via Columbia 1 – Rome. Concert with pieces of the type “Landscape sound” (Soundscape composition).
International Sound Week 2020 in Tucumán, is being organized by the Argentinian Acousticians Association (AdAA) and by the Group of Sustainable and Healthy Habitat (FAU UNT – CONICET). It will be held in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán on April 28 to 30, 2020. Activities are popular and educational for the general public. […]
The Congress will consist of a series of workshops, panel discussions and networking opportunities around the environmental noise pollution, in particular, specific current effective solution for noise problems. The third edition of the Congress will focus on: – Sound insulation and acoustic comfort in buildings (residential, commercial, educational, sanitary,…) – Concepts related to acoustic quality […]
A central event within the International Noise Awareness Day (Tag gegen Lärm) in Germany, focussing on future cities, agglomerations, e-mobility, and consequences for noise abatement and soundscape.
International Noise Awareness Day is a global campaign, founded in 1996 by the Center of Hearing and Communication (CHC), aiming to raise awareness of noise on the welfare and health of people. Noise affects people in many ways, but only deafness and annoyance receive actual interest from the general public. Worldwide, People are called upon […]
The Society of Acoustics(Singapore) will expand its International Noise Awareness Day (INAD) seminar into a full day workshop to commemorate the Year of Sound 2020.
The project “The sound of art” consists in making the works of art “living” and sounding. The pupils become protagonists of the works of art that come alive, together with their sound painting.
An open-door day of the Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences together with some cooperation partners on the occasion of the noise awareness day. Thirty interactive stations invite the public to hands-on experiments and to get information on noise and acoustics.
BNAM is the biennial Baltic-Nordic Acoustics Meeting (BNAM), organised by one of the national member societies of the Nordic Acoustics Association (NAA) on behalf of the NAA. In 2020, the conference takes place in Oslo, Norway on 3-6 May at the Clarion Hotel Oslo. The conference programme consists of key-note lectures, invited and contributed papers […]
The event is divided into two parts: a technical part about the thin line between an analog and a digital signal; and an “artistic” part that explains the topics of the technical part with musical excerpts and sound examples of analogic and digital sound carriers. The event is aimed at the general public with the […]
Empa opens its doors to the general public and offers unique insights into the everyday life of scientists. You can experience at first hand the technologies which we could encounter in everyday life in the future, from medicine, energy, mobility to construction technology and last but not least acoustics. Empa is the interdisciplinary research institute […]
The 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America will be held 11-15 May 2020 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. In addition to a full program of technical presentation, several outreach activities have been planned. These include hands-on demonstrations for local school students on the Wednesday morning and the Listen Up and Get Involved! program on […]
For the International Year of Sound the Acoustical Society of America is supporting Wiki4YearOfSound2020, a campaign to improve Wikipedia articles related to sound. One can participate online, or by promoting the project, suggesting a topic that should be a Wikipedia article and improving or translating existing articles. The Wikimedia outreach dashboard allows anyone to contribute […]
Specifically thought for the Palazzo Strozzi’s yard (place of public use and not acoustically circumscribable) Tempo Reale proposes a series of “sonic actions” able to connect with the space and the works placed in it. These actions start with the idea of humans as sound sources and the idea of humans as parts of a […]
Evening concert in which some musicians briefly explain each one how their instrument works, why they chose it, and some direct experiences they had about sound, in this case music, environment and health. At the end, in groups or alone, the above mentioned musicians perform some pieces, which have a relationship with nature, written by […]
On behalf of the organizing committee, it is our pleasure to invite you to the 20th Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU 2020) from May 17-20, 2020 at the Hwabaek International Convention Center (HICO) in Gyeongju, South Korea.Gyeongju was the capital city of the ancient kingdom of Silla for 992 years (from 57 BCE […]
Listen, Learn and Connect AES Conventions are held annually in both the United States and Europe and are the largest gatherings of audio professionals in the world. Workshops, tutorials, technical papers and the trade show floor provide attendees with a wealth of learning, networking and business opportunities. All of the papers presented at conventions — […]
Noise emitted by drones (UASs, UAVs) is becoming a major issue in residential and environmentally sensitive areas. The Symposium will provide a venue for researchers on drone noise to meet with manufacturers, users and those engaged in designing innovative applications for this new technology.
The Symposium on HYDROACOUSTICS is the only conference in Poland where representatives of science dealing with issues of underwater acoustics and users of hydroacoustic systems meet. It has been organized regularly for over 30 years. The symposium is an opportunity to present the latest achievements in all major areas of hydroacoustics and to promote and […]
The 47th Conference of the Acoustical Society of Italy will be held in Matera and, during the opening day, will host a number of popular initiatives to promote the culture of sound in the society. In particular, the key initiatives which will be advertised to high school and university students will be: Sounding Stones: a […]
Arcadia Naturalistic Center is organizing the SPRING BAT NIGHT IN BRESCIA on Saturday 30 May 2020, with a starting meeting at 8.30 pm in the headquarters of City District in via Milano in Brescia followed by a walk along the nearby historic center of the city. The Initiative, carried out with the patronage of the […]
Iberian Acoustics Congress – TECNIACUSTICA2020. Presentation and discussion of recent developments in all areas of acoustics within the Iberian Space: Portugal and Spain. The Congress includes paper presentation, plenary lectures and a dedicated symposium for underwater acoustics.
Dr. Arch. Antonella Radicchi of the TU Berlin Institute for Urban and Regional Planning will be leading a soundwalk for citizens in Limerick which builds on the promotion of the Hush City app in Limerick. The participants will be guided in a soundwalk through quiet areas in Limerick and invited to collect data using the […]
The Association “Gruppo naturalistico della Maremma Laziale” is organizing the FIRST BAT NIGHT IN TARQUINIA for Saturday 13 June 2020 in Tarquinia, with a meeting at the Information Point in Piazza Cavour and a walk along the nearby medieval route of the city, starting at 20.30. The initiative, carried out in collaboration with the Municipality […]
The 13th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem will be held at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
The final event of the LIFE MONZA project – Methodologies fOr Noise low emission Zones introduction And management, will give the opportunity to present the results of the project and the guidelines with the definition of the criteria for the identification and management of Noise Low Emission Zones – to public bodies, stakeholders and to […]
SMC is an international event organized yearly since 2004 by the Music Computing Network (SMCN), an association that includes researchers, professionals and musicians interested in scientific and technological applications in the fields of computing, electronics, acoustics, arts and music. In the days before the conference, a Summer School aimed at Master or PhD level students […]
TCA 2020 is a non-profit event, organized by the non-profit association: Italian Center for the Environment and Culture APS, in collaboration with the Regional Agency for the Environment of Campania, Regional Agency for the Environment of Tuscany, and the Municipality of Ravello, with the relevant scientific contribution of the Italian Association of Acoustics, under the […]
The Ecoacoustics Congress 2020 is the fourth in a series organized by the International Society of Ecoacoustics (ISE). The goal of the 2020 congress is to bring together scientists, natural resource managers, industry and artists to explore ways in which sound can deepen our understanding of the environment. Ecoacoustics arises from the union of acoustics, […]
The USA National Noise Control Conference. Will include student paper competition and the presentation of classic papers in noise control. Other outreach event details (in planning). Noise-Con conferences have a long history of having events related to outreach to the community. Typically these have involved seminars and workshops focused on a number of topics related […]
Four days of electroacoustic music featuring Acousmatic pieces and Soundscape compositions, Visual music, live performances and sound installations. The aim of the event is to involve the people who live in the area in the culture of sonic arts.
The International Institute on Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV) organizes an annual world event, the International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV), which combines all areas of acoustics, noise and vibration. The 27th Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV27) takes place in Prague (CZ) from 12-16 July 2020. Around 1000 participants from more than 50 different […]
Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium opens the UK’s largest hands-on interactive exhibition about sound, vibration and hearing. The exhibition, designed to wow and delight, will excite and inspire children and their grownups in science, technology, engineering and maths. Discover the science of sound through art, biology, physics, chemistry, nature, engineering, and interactive exhibits, live science […]
The meeting place of Music and Architecture – A festival where everything sounds The stage is created and built, the most suitable lighting is realized, the best possible propagation of the sound produced on stage is studied and, finally, the live performance is prepared. The students, young talents and the exceptional Masters work together to […]
The Kyma International Sound Symposium — KISS 2020: “The Sound of Science” — is an intensive 4-day symposium highlighting the power of sound through lectures, scientist/composer collaborations, data sonification workshops, attentive listening sessions, and public outreach through seven open-to-the-public, live cultural performances. At KISS 2020 we will be giving sound our undivided attention and will […]
The purpose of this conference is to advance knowledge and to facilitate progress in hearing aid research and development through the exchange of current research findings and technical advances related to the treatment of hearing impairment with hearing aids and other technologies. Students may receive travel grants. New at the IHCON 2020 meeting will be […]
The 49th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering will be held in Seoul, Korea, 23-26 August 2020. The Congress is hosted by the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering (KSNVE) on behalf of the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE). The theme of the Congress is Advances in Noise and Vibration […]
The Symposium on The Acoustics of Ancient Theatres, the second on this topic after the one held in Patras (Greece) in 2011, aims to bring together experts to present and discuss all aspects related to the acoustic properties of these monuments which are often still used for public performances including opera, drama, speech and music. […]
The study of timbre has recently gained a remarkable momentum. Following the Berlin Interdisciplinary Workshop on Timbre (2017) and the international conference Timbre is a Many-Splendored Thing (2018), the goal of Timbre 2020 is to continue a tradition of meetings around timbre. Timbre poses multifaceted research questions at the intersection of psychology, musicology, acoustics, and […]
How to protect our cities from noise? How to use sound as a design resource? How is noise different from sound? The event aims at raising awareness of the importance of sound in the built environment and in the integration of human activities with the natural landscape, especially the Alpine one. The goal is to […]
Annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, including social events and special sessions related to IYS2020.
The Open Seminar on Acoustics is an annual conference organized by different divisions of Polish Acoustical Society. The Seminar covers all areas of acoustics and foresees plenary lectures, lectures in technical sections as well as poster presentation session. A special session will be organized to celebrate the International Year of Sound 2020. Alongside the scientific […]
12° Congresso Iberoamericano de Acústica, in Florianopolis, Brazil.
Sensoria is the UK’s festival of music, film and digital. Based in Sheffield, the festival takes place 2 – 10 October and in 2020 will feature the theme ‘Sound Of The Crowd’. A wide range of activities will see Sensoria explore sound design in film and ‘sonic seasoning’, whilst also celebrating the human voice.
MSc students in hydrography and robotics are working on their research projects on the lake of Guerledan (Brittany, France) for one week. Local schools are pleased to participate in activities related to students projects during one afternoon. Dedicated activities for children from 6 to 12 years old are organized by researchers and MSc students (ex: […]
The Acoustics Week in Canada 2020 conference will be hosted at Sherbrooke (QC). It will be a vibrant tribute to the INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SOUND 2020 as declared by the International Commission for Acoustics.
On the occasion of the IYS the Acoustic Research Group of the Politecnico di Bari will organize a number of popular initiatives to promote the culture and the importance of sound in the society and in our life (the “Sounds of life” thread), as well as the knowledge of the way sound propagates and interacts […]
The 3rd Combined Conference of the New Zealand and Australian Acoustical Societies.
Annual Fall Meeting of the Swiss Acoustical Society SGA-SSA in Thun, Switzerland with around 200 participants.
The 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America will be held in Cancun, Mexico. Various outreach activities are planned.
The 1st Biennial International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration (A&V 2020), will be held in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 23 – 25 November 2020. The Congress is organized by Vibration and Acoustics Laboratory (Vibrastic Lab), Engineering Physics Department, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia. A&V 2020 is the technical conference on acoustics, vibration, and its applications. […]
The lagoon and the Venetian ecosystem, consisting of the periodic cycle of waves in comparison and in relation to the sound environment. There will be an event addressed to the Institute, at the Music Conservatory, and open to the whole of Venice. Operational workshops will be organized with the students. A conference will be a […]
The use of new technologies in art and sound is promoting the emergence of new materials and poetics for the artist; as well as new technological applications for the scientist. The main objective of this course is to experience an interdisciplinary creative process. Students will learn some of these new technologies to develop their own […]
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