Articles,
papers & presentations
by members of the Sound Space Design team
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Brian Katz, Robert Essert, Eckhard Kahle
Measured effects of absorption location, receiver position and source direction on reverberation.
Paper 6A.09.06, presented at the 17th International Congress on Acoustics, Rome, September (2001).
Robert Essert
Links between concert hall geometry, objective parameters, and sound quality.
Invited paper 5aAAa5 at the joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America / DAGA/ Forum Acusticum, Berlin, March 1999. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105(2), p. 986 (1999).
Robert Essert
Sound field rendering, acoustical modelling and auralisation.
Lecture/demonstration at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, 13 March 1998.
Robert Essert
Progress in concert hall design – developing an awareness of spatial sound and how to control it.
European Broadcasting Union Technical Review 274, Winter 1997-98.
Robert Essert
Developing awareness and control of spatial sound.
Proceedings, Institute of Acoustics 19 (Part 3), Auditorium Design at the Millennium, Belfast (1997).
Robert Essert
Measurement of spatial impulse responses with a soundfield microphone.
Presented at the 132nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, 6 December 1996.
Robert Essert and Eckhard Kahle
Towards an open room acoustics measurement system: I. overview and hardware.
Presented at the 132nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, 6 December 1996.
Robert Essert and Damian Doria
Air pedestal diffusion method of introducing air silently to spaces.
Presented as paper 4pAA, at the 131st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 16 May 1996.
Robert Essert
New theories of orchestra shell design: Coupled volume orchestra enclosures.
Lecture/demonstration, 36th Annual Conference of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), Fort Worth, Texas, 14 March 1996.
Robert Essert
Acoustics and sound systems technologies in performing arts facilities of the future.
Ninth International Congress of the Institute of Performing Arts (ISPA), Toronto, Canada, 9 June 1995.
Russell Johnson, Ekhard Kahle and Robert D. Essert
Variable Coupled Cubage for Music Performance.
Music and Concert Hall Acoustics Conference, Kirishima, Japan, 15-18 May 1995.
Russell Johnson, Sam Berkow and Robert Essert
Acoustics of the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas and Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England.
International Colloquium on Acoustics, Architecture and Auditoria, Institute of Acoustics, Birmingham, England, 19 May 1992.
Russell Johnson and Robert Essert
Broadening the range of Variable Reverberance.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90 (4, pt.2), (1991); presented as paper 4AA1 at the 122nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 6 November 1991, Houston, Texas.
David W. Kahn, David Greenberg and Robert Essert
Breakout noise from lined air conditioning ducts.
Proceedings, Noise‑Con 87, Pennsylvania State University (1987).
John P. Walsh and Robert D. Essert
Applications of 'pseudo‑SVD' pseudoinverse‑filtered impulse response estimates in room acoustics.
Proceedings, 12th International Congress on Acoustics, Toronto, paper E5‑7 (1986).
Russell Johnson, Robert Essert and John Walsh
Coordination of acoustics and theatre planning in the Pikes Peak Center.
Proceedings of the Symposium on acoustics and theatre planning for the performing arts (12th International Congress on Acoustics, Vancouver (1986).
Robert D. Essert, John P. Walsh, Nicholas Edwards, and Randy Cormack
Audible simulation using scale model impulse responses.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 76 (S1), S57 (1984); presented as paper AA5 at the 108th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 11 October 1984, Minneapolis.
Robert D. Essert
A portable, low‑cost, digital system for room acoustics measurements.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 74 (S1), S62 (1983); presented as paper GG6 at the 106th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 10 November 1983, San Diego.
