🎧 AES UK London × Hybrid Lecture
Join us for an evening of audio research with three current PhD students.
📅 Wed 10 Dec | 🕕 18:00–20:30
📍 Dyson Library, Imperial College London, SW7 2DB
💻 Online via Zoom, register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📢 We're inviting applications for a funded PhD position on the project "Perceptually-Informed Design and Validation of Spatial Audio for Virtual Acoustics."

🗓 Deadline: 09 January 2026

🔗 Learn more & apply: www.imperial.ac.uk/design-engin...

#PhD #SpatialAudio

🎉 Huge congratulations to our team members Rapolas and Neel for successfully passing their PhD viva over the past couple of weeks! 👇

Greetings from CherISH doctoral network meeting in Leuven 👋

It’s been a productive few months for our team! We’re excited to share two more recently published works: 🧵👇

Last year, we co-organised the first Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge, sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society and @sonicom.bsky.social

Now, we’re excited to share two new publications that present the challenge outcomes! 🧵👇

🚨 New SONICOM Publication Alert! 🚨

Our latest paper relates to the 1st Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge and officially opens the LAP24 Special Topic in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, dedicated to the 2024 LAP Challenge 🔊

📖 Read it here: 👉 bit.ly/4nIf4RU

The AXD team had a great time in Málaga last week presenting our work at Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025, including the @sonicom.bsky.social and Cherish projects. We enjoyed engaging discussions, fostered old friendships, and made exciting new connections! ☀️

Nicola La Magna, PhD student with @Cherish_MSCA, presented his poster on spatial release from masking and listening effort in binaural vs. free-field listening at the International Symposium on Hearing (ISH 2025) in Vienna. Great to see this work shared at an international forum!

👋 Greetings from the International Congress of Acoustics (ICA) in New Orleans, where our PhD student Nils presented his work on enhancing spatial release from masking through individual head-related transfer function augmentation.

Read more about our latest ANTHEA paper, where we explore the neural correlates (EEG) of spatialised sound detection in complex acoustic scenes:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📄We have a new publication on the generalization of accommodation to head-related transfer functions! Give it a read 👇

#SpatialAudio #HRTF #Hearing

pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

SONICOM exhibited at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Senses Lates a few weeks ago!

On the night visitors had the opportunity to listen to some audio demos, learn about the project and go on a tour of the Turret Lab 🔊

Read more 👉 bit.ly/3ZUNg2T

@axdimperial.bsky.social @imperialspark.bsky.social

📢 New SONICOM toolbox

Introducing Spatial Audio Metrics (SAM) – an open-source software platform to compare and visualise Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) which helps enhance the listening experience 🔊

Learn more 👇 bit.ly/49s7zYL

Today, we were visited by David Lou Alon from Meta Reality Labs and Boaz Rafaely from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. We had great discussions about our research in the spatial audio domain.

Come say hello to the SONICOM team at #ImperialLates: Senses 🔊

We’ll also be running tours of the Turret Lab so make sure you get your name on the list before we run out of space!

See you from 6pm at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

📃 Have a read of our latest article, which focuses on using virtual acoustics for assessing ecoacoustic monitoring devices (our 6-channel autonomous #MAARU recorder)👇

doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Hello #BlueSky 🦋 world!

You can meet us in person at #ImperialLates: Senses tonight to explore the wonderful world of 3D audio. 🔊🎧

🗓️ 5 December, 6-9 pm

📍South Kensington
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Register here: ow.ly/Sxvl50U9320