idemolab
Beat & Beers: City Sound & Noise
All photos by Mathias Vejerslev. www.flickr.com/photos/mvejerslev
Cities have always been associated with the experience of noise. With the growing democratization of what the urban spaces are used for in terms of events and activities, the need for a focus on how the sounds influence our everyday life arises.
Where the discourse primarily has been focussing on how to eliminate noise in the city, new initiatives focusing on the qualities of city sounds and what role they play in the public space are emerging. Whether the focus is reduction of traffic noise, acoustic design or cultural events, they all share a common goal: To improve and strenghten the sonic experience of the urban space for the people who live there as well as visitors. Bits & Beers: City Sound & Noise puts a spotlight on the topic through inspirational talks from innovative professionals within the field of city acoustics.
Bits & Beers is IdemoLab’s atypical evening conference connecting businesses, creatives, entrepreneurs, and makers in the relaxed Friday bar atmosphere, with the structure of a well organized business networking and knowledge sharing event. Bits & Beers consists of a “friday-bar”; short, introductory talks as well as an engaging exibition-area, where you can experience new technologies and concepts with-in the subject of the day.
Speakers:
Ingeborg Okkels
Ingeborg has a PHD in Musicology from Copenhagen University. Her PHD was looking into music technology and perception of audio. She has been a lecturer and writer on audio-related areas, specializing in electronic music and sound collages. As a composer and sound designer she has been working for art films and installations. Since 2014 Ingeborg Okkels have been facilitating many workshops related to sound, sound experience and sound awareness. These have been carried out in cooperation with museums, educational institutions, libraries, architects and private companies.
Kirstine Lorenzen
Kirstine Lorenzen has over the past 20 years working with green growth and technology development, especially within the energy, climate, street lights and traffic noise. Since May 2015, Kirstine has been responsible for the Silent City – Living Lab of Urban Noise Reduction. SC takes place in the Southern part of Greater Copenhagen.
Lærke Cecilie Bjerre:
Regulations for quiet urban areas are typically based on sound level limits alone. However, the full immersion in the on-site non-acoustic context is important when evaluating overall and subjective soundscape quality in urban recreational areas. Lærke and her two partners Anna Josefine Sørensen and Thea Mathilde Larsen won the Young Investigator Best Paper award in Hawaii 2016 for their research in holistic sound evaluation in urban areas.
Steffen Ring and Michael Frejdal
Ring Advocacy is a technical partner in the MONICA project - a project born to demonstrate how multiple Internet of Things technologies can help in terms of noise control, sound quality, crowd management and security at large cultural events taking place in the city. Ring Advocacy was founded in 2015 by Steffen Ring, MScEE, as a technology consultancy within regulatory affairs regarding spectrum and standardisation matters with a global scope. Also included in the project is Michael Frejdal, technical director of Tivoli in Copenhagen, which works as a pilot site for MONICA to investigate through Tivoli activities and events such as eg. 'Fredagsrock'.
Music:
Mads Hennelund
Mads Hennelund is the former leadsinger in the disco-pop band MÅNE. With his new soloproject PUNGIE he reunites clubmusic and technomusic with beautiful sounds and pop-harmonies
Beat & Beers: City Sound & Noise
All photos by Mathias Vejerslev. www.flickr.com/photos/mvejerslev
Cities have always been associated with the experience of noise. With the growing democratization of what the urban spaces are used for in terms of events and activities, the need for a focus on how the sounds influence our everyday life arises.
Where the discourse primarily has been focussing on how to eliminate noise in the city, new initiatives focusing on the qualities of city sounds and what role they play in the public space are emerging. Whether the focus is reduction of traffic noise, acoustic design or cultural events, they all share a common goal: To improve and strenghten the sonic experience of the urban space for the people who live there as well as visitors. Bits & Beers: City Sound & Noise puts a spotlight on the topic through inspirational talks from innovative professionals within the field of city acoustics.
Bits & Beers is IdemoLab’s atypical evening conference connecting businesses, creatives, entrepreneurs, and makers in the relaxed Friday bar atmosphere, with the structure of a well organized business networking and knowledge sharing event. Bits & Beers consists of a “friday-bar”; short, introductory talks as well as an engaging exibition-area, where you can experience new technologies and concepts with-in the subject of the day.
Speakers:
Ingeborg Okkels
Ingeborg has a PHD in Musicology from Copenhagen University. Her PHD was looking into music technology and perception of audio. She has been a lecturer and writer on audio-related areas, specializing in electronic music and sound collages. As a composer and sound designer she has been working for art films and installations. Since 2014 Ingeborg Okkels have been facilitating many workshops related to sound, sound experience and sound awareness. These have been carried out in cooperation with museums, educational institutions, libraries, architects and private companies.
Kirstine Lorenzen
Kirstine Lorenzen has over the past 20 years working with green growth and technology development, especially within the energy, climate, street lights and traffic noise. Since May 2015, Kirstine has been responsible for the Silent City – Living Lab of Urban Noise Reduction. SC takes place in the Southern part of Greater Copenhagen.
Lærke Cecilie Bjerre:
Regulations for quiet urban areas are typically based on sound level limits alone. However, the full immersion in the on-site non-acoustic context is important when evaluating overall and subjective soundscape quality in urban recreational areas. Lærke and her two partners Anna Josefine Sørensen and Thea Mathilde Larsen won the Young Investigator Best Paper award in Hawaii 2016 for their research in holistic sound evaluation in urban areas.
Steffen Ring and Michael Frejdal
Ring Advocacy is a technical partner in the MONICA project - a project born to demonstrate how multiple Internet of Things technologies can help in terms of noise control, sound quality, crowd management and security at large cultural events taking place in the city. Ring Advocacy was founded in 2015 by Steffen Ring, MScEE, as a technology consultancy within regulatory affairs regarding spectrum and standardisation matters with a global scope. Also included in the project is Michael Frejdal, technical director of Tivoli in Copenhagen, which works as a pilot site for MONICA to investigate through Tivoli activities and events such as eg. 'Fredagsrock'.
Music:
Mads Hennelund
Mads Hennelund is the former leadsinger in the disco-pop band MÅNE. With his new soloproject PUNGIE he reunites clubmusic and technomusic with beautiful sounds and pop-harmonies