Recently in Acoustics Category

The Daily Telegraph: UK academics are calling on members of the public to use their mobile phones to record their local soundscape and send them the results.
 
It is hoped that the clips will then make up a detailed acoustic map of the noise environment around the country and help offset the growing menace of noise pollution.

The project—which will make the raw acoustic data available on the web—aims to get a better idea of why some sounds add to the atmosphere of a place and others detract and cause annoyance.

The Guardian: An orchestra of ancient instruments, many of which exist only in paintings and yellowing manuscripts, will perform its first concert at the end of the year.

Many of the instruments have not been heard since the times of Socrates in the fifth century BC, though some of the instruments date back even further, to the bronze age a thousand years earlier.

Scientists are reconstructing the sounds of the instruments, including the earliest predecessors of the bass guitar, harp and oboe, by building mathematical models of them on computers, using descriptions in ancient texts and paintings on artifacts recovered from archaeological sites in Greece.