Acoustics

It wouldn't be very useful for the BBC Phil to play in, unlike this room, which is beautifully designed and optimised for their acoustic needs.

Acoustics is the study of a physical property, sound, but the point of your work is that it's intensely psychological as well, isn't it?

Yeah, I mean, my colleagues and I sort of do all sorts of kind of things like designing alert sounds for scooters or looking at how we might make a drone sound not so annoying and all this.

And all these features, when we come to engineer a machine or engineer a place, a building or environment, it's humans who judge is this a success or not.

Der Dom ist ein Schil ohne Mic.

So Acoustics means a lot for him.

Ein normaler Singer, wir nehmen any Singer, wo sie geht, der Chason und los, ist nur ein Mic.

So, ein Mic kannst du fixen, machst größer, schneller, breiter, höher, whatever.

Welcome to Across Acoustics, the official podcast of the Acoustical Society of America's publications office.

On this podcast, we will highlight research from our four publications.

I'm your host, Kat Setzer, Editorial Associate for the ASA.

At best, you're talking about maybe 200 or 300 feet or 100 yards.

So that really limits visual methods from if you think about critter cameras or things you might use on land to understand what's going on.

Acoustics offers a really timely opportunity to track underwater animals and ecosystems over space and time as our planet is shifting rapidly.

I completely agree.

And I think the field is heading toward larger, longer, and more integrated monitoring systems.

T as in Tony and B as in balloon.

This one's acoustics.

Acoustics is the branch of physics focused on the study of mechanical...

Waves, which is very true.

Sound, ultrasound, infrasound, which I never heard of the term infrasound before.