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Derby Graduate and Enter Shikari Live Surround Tour

One of our recent graduates, James Coghlan, was involved in the sound team for the latest Enter Shikari tour which featured Live Quadraphonic Surround Sound. As we’re interested in both surround sound and it’s use in the live event (it’s a feature on all courses in our area – see the case study Improved Spatial Audio...
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Undergrad students support 6 events in a week!

Our 3rd year BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event Technology students have had a very busy week supporting six events in and around Derby. The run started on Friday, 1 December, with a trip up to the Devonshire Dome on our Buxton campus. A team of four students, led by Ryan Finlayson, put together...
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IoA Reproduced Sound set to visit Derby this week

The Institute of Acoustics conference on Reproduced Sound will be visiting the Entertainment Engineering subject group here at Derby this Tuesday evening to get a taste of the various research projects our staff and students have on the go. Projects being demonstrated  span topic areas including: live sound reinforcement, ambisonics, speech intelligibility, and wave field...
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Students light Derby Cathedral

This past Sunday, 29 November, some of our 3rd year BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event students took some lighting fixtures and projectors over to Derby Cathedral to support their event, Evensong of Light: Celebrating 90 Years of Derby Cathedral.     The students (with the help of our lecturers, Ben Sams and Simon Lewis)...
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Avolights visits Derby for training sessions

Avolights, one of the industry’s leading manufacturers of lighting consoles, is on site this week to provide training to our BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event Technology students. Avolights’ van pulling up to the university on Tuesday They’ve brought in a number of lighting consoles to supplement the AVO products the University currently owns...
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