Best Francesco Aletta Podcasts (2024)

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#WiA special series with Mariana Lopez 51:36

24d ago51:36

51:36

Welcome 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 ver…

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La ville sonore avec Catherine Guastavino 23:35

2M ago23:35

23:35

For 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 runnin…

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#WiA special series with Reena Mahtani 42:15

3M ago42:15

42:15

Welcome 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…

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Soundscape Gentrification with Bethan Prosser 34:44

4M ago34:44

34:44

...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…

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#WiA special series with Alice Eldridge 48:05

6M ago48:05

48:05

Welcome 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 sou…

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Complex Auditory Scenes with Maggie McMullin 22:13

6M ago22:13

22:13

For 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 a…

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Sensory Urbanism with Jieling Xiao 30:19

7M ago30:19

30:19

Sounds, 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.…

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#WiA special series with Helen Sheldon 36:46

8M ago36:46

36:46

Welcome 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. Fi…

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Listening to Landscapes with Usue Ruiz Arana 31:02

9M ago31:02

31:02

In 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 port…

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Radio Utopia: La Biennale di Venezia 23 with Carlotta Darò and Nicolas Tixier 42:12

10M ago42:12

42:12

Welcome 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 exhib…

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#WiA special series: Sustainable Careers with Angela Lamacraft 36:51

11M ago36:51

36:51

Welcome 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 mate…

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Cities and Memory (and Microphones) 34:48

12M ago34:48

34:48

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, w…

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Urban Sound Symposium 2023 26:06

1y ago26:06

26:06

Your 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…

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#WiA special series: Bubbles Everywhere with Eleanor Stride 41:03

1y ago41:03

41:03

Today 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 ca…

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Engaging with Everyday Sounds and Marcel Cobussen 53:54

1y ago53:54

53:54

Stop - 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 poli…

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Sayonara Soundscapes 40:10

1+ y ago40:10

40:10

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 soundsc…

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Aural Diversity with John Drever 41:41

1+ y ago41:41

41:41

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. Find our website: https://www.justnoisepod.com/ Twitter: @JustNoisePod Find our website: https://www.justnoisepod…

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Engineering Soundscapes 35:55

1+ y ago35:55

35:55

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 …

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Highlights of the Acoustics of Ancient Theatres Symposium 37:57

2y ago37:57

37:57

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 …

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"Urban Roars" with Jordan Lacey 49:00

2y ago49:00

49:00

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 …

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Can you hear me? 37:44

2y ago37:44

37:44

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.justnoise…

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How much is a decibel worth? 57:34

2y ago57:34

57:34

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…

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Lockdown Soundscapes 33:55

2y ago33:55

33:55

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 o…

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The Songs of Notre-Dame - Special ASA episode with Sarabeth Mullins 33:28

2+ y ago33:28

33:28

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 cathedra…

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ASA ReCap - Once Upon A Time In Seattle 32:38

2+ y ago32:38

32:38

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! Th…

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Picnics at the Wall with Pamela Jordan 37:16

2+ y ago37:16

37:16

Throughout 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 Am…

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Live from the ASA! Mini-episode with Ronald Altoon - Ethics and Culture in Acoustics 19:01

2+ y ago19:01

19:01

This 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…

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Ep. 12 Soundscape Legacies 40:48

3y ago40:48

40:48

We'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 -…

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Ep. 11 Mechanical Birds - Drones and Soundscapes with Dr. Antonio Torija 41:08

3y ago41:08

41:08

In 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 makin…

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Lockdown Soundscapes - The Stockholm Syndrome with Romain Rumpler 36:48

3y ago36:48

36:48

This 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 th…

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Ep. No. 9 with Prof Gascia Ouzounian and Dr Ruth Bernatek 40:12

3y ago40:12

40:12

Number 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 designe…

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Ep. 8 "Stereophonica" with Prof Gascia Ouzounian 29:21

3y ago29:21

29:21

Today 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 …

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Ep. 7 Circumplex Conversations - Measuring Soundscape Perception with Simone Torresin 41:55

3y ago41:55

41:55

This 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 circump…

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Ep. 6 S̶t̶a̶r̶ Sound Wars with Dr Linda O'Keeffe 1:00:54

3+ y ago1:00:54

1:00:54

Happy 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 …

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Ep. 5 Highlights of the Urban Sound Symposium 2021 36:15

3+ y ago36:15

36:15

This 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…

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Ep. 4 "Musikiosk, Misters, and More!" with Dan Steele and Edda Bild 1:13:52

3+ y ago1:13:52

1:13:52

Today 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: Soundtr…

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Sonic Appropriation and the UK Policing Bill with Edda Bild 25:23

3+ y ago25:23

25:23

In 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 an…

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Ep.3 2020 was The Year of Sound (among other things) with Marion Burgess, Michael Taroudakis, & Jean-Dominique Polack 45:01

3+ y ago45:01

45:01

The 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 carr…

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Ep.2 Up and Down the Soundscape Scales with Dr Sarah Payne 40:55

3+ y ago40:55

40:55

How 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). …

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Ep.1 "The Birds" with Dr Ellie Ratcliffe 43:07

3+ y ago43:07

43:07

Today 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 …

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Ep.0 A Noisy Prelude 14:36

3+ y ago14:36

14:36

Meet 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 tha…

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