International Symposium on Room Acoustics (ISRA 2007 Sevilla)
An international symposium on room acoustics was held in Sevilla , 10 - 12 September. The event was organised as an satellit symposium to the 19th International Congress on Acoustics in Madrid. Leading experties from all over the world presented "state of the art" in different field of room acoustics. The program consist of 6 keynote lectures and about 75 contributed papers. The main topics of the symposium were
Open air spaces acoustics
Design and room acoustics
Room acoustics simulation
Worship building acoustics
The keynotes lectures cover areas like auditory spatial impression in concert halls, the important role of the seat rows of the Hellenistic Theatre of Epidaurus, acoustics in churches, coupled rooms, room acoustics in virtual reality and finally, room acoustic simulations of multi-source environments. The first keynote lecture given by prof. Masayuki Morimoto was an excellent presentation of spatial and temporal structures and spectra of reflections on auditory source width and listener envelopment.
Saint-Gobain Ecophon AB presented two papers at the symposium concerning classroom acoustic:
Classroom acoustic measurement and evaluation, Nils-Åke Andersson and Erling Nilsson. Download file
Sound decay and steady-state level in rooms with ceiling treatment, Erling Nilsson and Nils-Åke Andersson. Download file
