Talking Acoustics

Matthew Ottley

Talking Acoustics looks into the art and science of acoustics including interviews with some of the people who spend their lives working in this diverse field. Hosted by Matthew Ottley from Sydney Australia.

  • 33 minutes 15 seconds
    Ep 24 - Walter Montano

    Walter Alfredo Montano is an Argentinian, now based in Peru. He has an interest in the history of noise control and has been involved with the ASA Archive and History Committee in investigating the lives of the 34 lesser-known founders of the ASA. He has also been involved in low frequency noise and communication with communities about such noise including with indigenous groups in the Amazon rainforest. 

    28 April 2024, 6:24 am
  • 34 minutes 57 seconds
    Ep 23 - Libby Sander

    Dr Libby Sander is an internationally renowned academic expert on the future of work and the workplace. She is the MBA Director and Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Bond University. Libby has a reasearch focus on workplaces and how workplace design affects the people that work in them. In the last few years she has been involved with two reseach programs looking at how acoustics impacts outcomes in workplaces and education settings.

    18 November 2023, 11:53 pm
  • 32 minutes 19 seconds
    Ep 22 - Rebecca Warren

    Rebecca Warren is passionate about getting more women involved in acoustics and engineering. We talked about how we can raise awareness about engineering, engage in role modelling, advocacy and mentoring. She also shares some thoughts on imposter syndrome and how leaders can help their staff overcome it.

    1 June 2023, 3:39 am
  • 52 minutes 24 seconds
    Ep 21 -Jim Metzner

    Jim Metzner has spent a lifetime recording soundscapes, from which he has produced records, radio programs and now podcasts. His podcast Pulse of the Planet, started on radio in 1988 and is now also heard widely as a podcast. In 2020, Jim's sound archive was acquired by the US Library of Congress which will be the new home of the Metzner archive: 40 years of soundscapes, programs, interviews, music and non-categorizable audio.

    1 March 2023, 10:26 pm
  • 31 minutes 24 seconds
    Ep 20 - Stephen Marsland
    What do Kiwi birds, machine learning, methematical geometry and acoustics have in common? Stephen Marsland. Stephen is a Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at Victoria University of Wellington, where he leads the AviaNZ research group.
    24 November 2022, 12:18 am
  • 32 minutes 43 seconds
    Ep 19: Amanda Robinson
    Amanda Robinson is currently the Vice President of Architecture at Aercoustics Engineering Limited, based in Toronto Canada. Before that she was with Marshall Day Acoustics in Australia for 17 years, including as Co-CEO of MDA Australia, as well as serving on the Board.
    20 October 2022, 10:44 pm
  • 32 minutes 21 seconds
    Ep 18: Tracy Gowen
    Tracy Gowen Started in Geomatic Engineering, before transitioning into environmental acoustics. She now leads the environmental acoustic teams on some of the largest intrastructure projects in Australia.
    26 June 2022, 6:38 am
  • 34 minutes 37 seconds
    Ep 17 James McIntosh
    If you have read a technical paper on road noise in the last 15 years there is a fair chance James McIntosh either authored it or is cited in it. James spent 20 years at GM Holden, working on noise and vibration harshness is vehicle development before running the Crash Test Lab (which sounds like fun to me). He then moved to VicRoads, the Victorian government roads department, and was responsible for the development of much of the noise policy over his time there. In 2021 he left his government role and set up his own consulting firm James McIntosh Acoustics.
    31 May 2022, 11:06 pm
  • 44 minutes
    Ep 16 - Fiona Young and the Solais Sandpit

    The architectural perspective on the interaction between acoustics and the built form learning environment from Hayball's Fiona Young. An immersive adventure about an acoustician and a team of architects going back to school to run a project based learning exercise with year 7 students at Domremy College, thanks to principal Vivienne Awad. 

    31 May 2020, 2:20 am
  • 46 minutes 8 seconds
    Ep 15 - Marion Burgess

    After completing a degree in physics, Marion Burgess commenced working in acoustics in an Australian building research laboratory. Since then she has had over 40 years broad experience in many aspects of acoustics including building, environmental and occupational noise measurement, assessments, control and research.

    22 March 2020, 1:30 am
  • 26 minutes 59 seconds
    Ep 14 - Katie Teyhan
    Katie is a specialist in the technical field of environmental acoustics associated with mining, industry, roads and railway transportation. Katie manages the acoustics team for EMM in Newcastle, Australia. She is passionate about education and mentoring others in acoustics.
    28 January 2020, 9:37 am
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