Like I mentioned in my last entry, the spring semester finally concluded at the end of May. Since we had some significant breaks to account for Easter and a re-exam period, the semester ended nearly a month later than I was previously accustomed to in the US. Here I will be providing a brief overview of what I accomplished over the last couple months of classes for anyone who is interested in my work in the Sound & Vibration program at Chalmers.
My Room Acoustics class was admittedly less time intensive after the opera design competition concluded, but still productive nonetheless. After the opera project, I worked with a group of three other students to conduct acoustic measurements in a bomb shelter at Chalmers. We took impulse response measurements and then processed in Matlab in order to calculate certain room qualities (spoiler: a bomb shelter is not a good listening room). After that, our class built a scale model of a studio control room. We were divided into groups, and each group was responsible for designing and producing different components of the room. My group was in charge of adding furniture and a desk to the room, which primarily increased the amount of absorption in the room in addition to serving as places where people are supposed to sit and work. Other groups had to design the room shell, interior dimensions, and add diffusion and absorption to various surfaces in the room. We then took measurements in the model in order to evaluate how well our design performed in reality.
Taking measurements in a very reverberant bomb shelter. Photo by Brett Seward.
But there is still one small, slight hurdle! That of my thesis defense! It takes place on Friday so currently most things are taking second priority. However, whilst taking a break I thought it would be nice to share with you the recent fun things I’ve been up to!
