One of the main goals of Acoustic Atlas is to get acoustic data from heritage acoustic researchers to expand the data base and build awareness and community around this topic.

So far Acoustic Atlas has reached out to various groups and I will post a monthly update of researchers who will join.

For the first premiere of Acoustic Atlas at the Webaudio conference 2019 in Trondheim, MSC researcher Dr. Lidia Alvarez’s Cathedral Acoustics generously provided room inpulse response recordings of Bristol Cathedral, Ely Cathedral, York Minster Cathedral and Ripon Cathedral. Listen here.

Lidia is a specialist in architectural acoustics and the acoustics of heritage buildings. She has extensive knowledge of acoustics analysis and virtual acoustics. What you hear in this first version for each cathedral, are single point source/listener impulse response positions. Lidia’s measurements, include much finer details than are presented inside the Acoustic Atlas. Read more about her research, detailed source/listener positions and analysis for each site that she worked on. I hope to collaborate with Lidia in the future, to add more source/listener positions for each cathedral and learn a lot more about the vast acoustic nuances she discovered and focused on.