Playing with Physics and Perception
Professor Trevor Cox comes to us from the University of Salford department of Acoustic Engineering where his research areas are architectural acoustics, signal processing and audio perception.
Trevor is also an author and radio broadcaster having presented many documentaries on BBC radio and written books for academics and the general public. He holds a Guinness World Record for playing the saxophone in a disused World War II oil tank!!
Trevor will talk to us about sound perception and the scientific stories behind unusual architectural sounds, including examples from unlikely places, such as a railway tunnel near Penistone and a disused Cold War spy station near Berlin. The talk will be rich in sound examples, because these phenomena play with our perception of sound.
