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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Active and Tunable Acoustic Metamaterials

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) and JASA Express Letters are calling for papers for a joint Special Issue on Active and Tunable Acoustics Metamaterials. This Special Issue invites all manuscripts exploring new active and tunable acoustic or elastodynamic metamaterials. Guest Editors for this Special Issue are Michael R. Haberman, Christina Naify, Bogdan Popa, and Serife Tol. The submission deadline is September 31, 2024. Read more here!

How joint Special Issues work: Authors have the option to select JASA or JASA Express Letters to submit a paper to for a Special Issue. Accepted papers will be published in the next available regular issue of the selected journal and identified as belonging to the Special Issue. After all papers have published for the Special Issue, they will be included in a cross-journal online collection at the JASA and JASA Express Letters websites. For more on how to submit, see the Call for Papers.

New Across Acoustics Episode: Exploring Timbre of Stradivari Violins

Why is the sound quality of some violins preferred over others? In this episode, we talk to Carlo Andrea Rozzi (National Research Council of Italy) and Massimo Grassi (University of Padova) about the myth surrounding Stradivari violins as well as their research into the aspects of violin timbre that cause listeners to prefer one instrument to another.

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October 2023 JASA Cover

The October cover of JASA is now available and it features exciting new research from this past month!

The cover image is from Figures 8 through 11 of “Apparatus for three-dimensional emission pattern estimation of acoustic emitters,” by Alberto Yoshihiro Nakano, Artur Adolfo Falkovski, Mayconvorgel Ibrahim Ribeiro, and Felipe Walter Dafico Pfrimer. Editor in Chief Jim Lynch says about the feature article: The 3-D directional pattern of an acoustic emitter is a key piece of its characterization, but not so simple to obtain with simple equipment and processing. In the article by Nakano et al, a relatively simple single sensor device mounted on a circular swivel is described, which allows very precise measurements to be made. The measurement is slower than a 3-D spherical enclosure, but has a great advantage in simplicity and cost.

Some other research was also highlighted on the October JASA cover:

From Architectural Acoustics, “Singing in different performance spaces: The effect of room acoustics on singers’ perception,” by Yvonne Gonzales Redman, Joshua D. Glasner, Dario D’Orazio, and Pasquale Bottalico
From Education in Acoustics, “What is silence? Therefore, what is sound?,” by William A. Yost.
From Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, “Effects of hearing loss, age, noise exposure, and listening skills on envelope regularity discrimination,” by Christian Füllgrabe, Lionel Fontan, Élodie Vidal, Hugo Massari, and Brian C. J. Moore.
From Signal Processing in Acoustics, “Mid-frequency acoustic localization of breaking waves,” by Ryan Saenger, Luc Lenain, and William S. Hodgkiss.

All the articles from the cover are free to read for a month after the cover is released, so be sure to check them out! You can find the whole issue at https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/issue/154/4.

Popular Social Media Posts – October

It’s that time of the month where we take a look at some of our popular publications social media posts on Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), and LinkedIn. The following posts got people to like, share, save, and perhaps most importantly, read the published research!

On the ASA Facebook page, a Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) post featuring “Modeling the sound radiation of gamelan gongs using analytic rigid spherical models” got shared quite a bit. You can visit the post first or read the article at https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001754.

Users on Instagram really liked the loudspeaker array from “Sound field synthesis for psychoacoustic research: In situ evaluation of auralized sound pressure level” published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA). You can like the IG post or go check out the entire article at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0021066.

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Then, on Linked In, the Acoustics Today (AT) collection covering Human Psychoacoustics piqued users’ interest. Leave your own reactions on the post or check out the articles at https://acousticstoday.org/at-collections-human-psychoacoustics/.

Over on the JASA Express Letter X (Twitter) account, the post featuring the Editor’s Pick, “Higher-order mode filtering by a resistive layer” got a lot of love. See the original tweet here or skip straight to reading the article at: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0021283.

We also still have some upcoming Halloween related social posts, so be sure to like and follow us on our social media platforms so that you don’t miss anything!