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To generate, disseminate, and promote the knowledge and practical applications of acoustics. 🌍 Melville, NY 🌐 Learn more: acousticalsociety.org

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · Jul 24

Nominations open: ASA Science Communication Award

Created or seen great acoustics content (Mar 2023–Oct 2025)? Nominate it!

🏆 $2,500 + ASA meeting travel
📣 Articles, videos, podcasts, social, etc.
🗓 Deadline: 13 Oct 2025

👉 acoustics.org/science-comm...

#SciComm #Acoustics
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AIP Publishing @aip-publishing.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers — as your partner in publishing, we celebrate our collective achievements in #Acoustics publications from this past year!

Learn More 👇
https://aippub.org/4mujiuK

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 2d

The design team for the Richmond Olympic Oval built for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games consisted of Fast & Epp Structural Engineers, Cannon Design Architects, StructureCraft Builders, and Marshall Long Acoustics Acoustical Engineers. https://acousticstoday.org/richmond-olympic-oval-marshall-long/

Main Hall with massive curved beams and WoodWave© panels (Courtesy Fast & Epp Structural Engineers and Wood WORKS! BC).

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #WorldTeachersDay! Check out this Sound Perspective from Andrew Morrison about the influence of #teachers on his #acoustics career: https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2024.20.4.54

#exploresound

For me, there have been many small moments of serendipity that have helped me get to where I am today. Sometimes, I can point to a specific person at a moment in time, like my first piano teacher or my high-school math teacher, who provided that nudge that would come to dramatically shape my career trajectory. In other cases, the interactions would be spread over longer time as in the case of being mentored by Tom Rossing

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 5d

POMA

This paper discusses the history of the acoustic rocket apparatus, citing the original publications describing the phenomenon, with several demonstrations of various versions of the apparatus. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002103

#acoustics

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 5d

JASA

Which spectral cues underlie the perceptual processing of smiles in speech? This paper suggests a general method to estimate the spectral bases of emotional, social, paralinguistic, speech representations.

https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5020989

#WorldSmileDay

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 6d

POMA

This study experimentally assesses the influence of cello string types on playability and tonal characteristics using a robotic bowing device and a custom monochord setup:
https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002111

#acoustics

A detailed close-up of a violin showing the strings and bridge, highlighting craftsmanship.

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 6d

JASA Express Letters

This study investigated how variation in vocal timbre (e.g., neutral and twangy) influences intelligibility and listening effort in plane and train-shaped noises.

https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0037043

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 7d

POMA

For International #Coffee Day, learn how a coffee mug and electronic speckle-pattern interferometry can be used in a general education #acoustics class. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0000830

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 7d

REFLECTIONS

Don't miss the article that inspired the latest Reflection! "Inversion of seismoacoustic data using genetic algorithms and a posteriori probability distributions," by Peter Gerstoft: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.408387

#acoustics

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 8d

Happy International Podcast Day!

Celebrate by listening to the ASA Publications podcast, Across Acoustics! We highlight authors' research from our four publications: JASA, JASA Express Letters, POMA, and Acoustics Today. Streaming now at acrossacoustics.buzzsprout.com

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 8d

REVIEW

Approaches to understanding effects from particle motion and substrate-borne vibration on fishes and invertebrates https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0039378

A mesmerizing view of a school of barracuda swimming in the clear waters of Malaysia.

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 9d

Acoustics Today

It’s Not (Just) That Your Toddler is Ignoring You: The Impact of Noise on Children’s Comprehension
https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2025.21.1.21

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 10d

SCILIGHT

The glockenspiel is commonly played in orchestras and ensembles. Little is known about how it radiates sound. Learn about what Brigham Young University Physics and Astronomy researchers learned in a recent study: https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0039505

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 10d

POMA

How do the erhu and violin shape our emotions? Learn more at https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001986

Emotion distribution for “Flight of the Bumblebee” by performance and instrument, which are the percentages of emotional responses (happy, sad, agitated, calm) elicited from participants.

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 11d

POMA
This paper presents an initiative in enhancing the experience of tourists visiting Macao, by way of applying soundscape based on the technical specification ISO/TS 12913-2:2018. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001006

#acoustics #worldtourismday

Table 3 summarizes participants‟ evaluations and the measured sound levels at different sites of the soundwalk.

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 12d

JASA EXPRESS LETTERS

Modelling studies suggest that twang-like voice production with supralaryngeal constriction increases vocal economy. This study explores the vocal economy of twang-like voices in commercial music singers using the “quasi-output-cost ratio”. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0039036

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 12d

Acoustics Today

How Marine Mammal Hearing Research Guides Conservation
https://acousticstoday.org/how-marine-mammal-hearing-research-guides-conservation/

Spectrogram of a tone trial during a behavioral hearing test. A 500-ms tone is presented and the killer whale responded.

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 14d

Citation
Miski Mohamed, Matthew B. Winn; Acoustic analysis of Taylor Swift's dialect changes across different eras of her career. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 September 2025; 158 (3): 2278–2289. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 14d

In JASA, a pair of researchers from the University of Minnesota analyzed years of Taylor Swift’s recorded interviews to track how her dialect has evolved. Read the @aip-publishing.bsky.social press release: publishing.aip.org/publications...

Tracking the Evolution of Taylor Swift’s Dialect - AIP Publishing LLC

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2025 — Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop singers in history, influencing millions of fans with her music. Thanks to years of […]

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 14d

REFLECTIONS

In 1994, Peter Gerstoft laid the foundation for seismoacoustic inversion using approximate posterior probability distributions of model parameter values. Read about his seminal work in the newest Reflection: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

#acoustics

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 15d

Don't miss Sonic Connexions tomorrow, September 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM (Boston time, UTC -4)

Translating Promise into Practice: Field Validation and Ethical Transparency in Bioacoustics AI with Liz Ferguson, CEO and Founder, Ocean Science Analytics

Register now: whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Flyer titled “Sonic Connexions”, advertising online meet-up series to connect the bioacoustics community. The flyer features illustrations of a bat, cricket, bird, a microphone, and sound waves.

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 16d

Happy first day of Fall!

In this experiment, people listened to real, Foley, and synthesized sounds like “walking in leaves” to judge which were more realistic. doi.org/10.1121/2.00...

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 16d

POMA

Learn more about how pitch, dynamics, and vibrato shape emotions in violin music doi.org/10.1121/2.00...

The emotional characteristics of the violin with different pitches, dynamics, and vibrato

Recent research has explored how the emotional characteristics of violin sounds are influenced by pitch and dynamics. This study extends previous work by consid

doi.org

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 19d

SPECIAL ISSUE: ADVANCED AIR MOBILITY NOISE

This paper investigates various methods for predicting rotor turbulent boundary layer trailing-edge noise using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in conjunction with Amiet's trailing-edge noise model. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Methods to predict rotor trailing-edge noise using computational fluid dynamics

This paper investigates various methods for predicting rotor turbulent boundary layer trailing-edge noise using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in conjunctio

doi.org

Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 20d

JASA

This article presents a method for determining the significant parameters, maximum wind speed and radius of maximum wind speed, of the surface winds associated with a hurricane. The method is based on Bayesian inversion, using Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling.
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Bayesian inversion for hurricane parameters based on underwater ambient noise levels

A method is presented for determining the significant parameters, maximum wind speed and radius of maximum wind speed, of the surface winds associated with a hu

doi.org