Quest for the Worst Sound in the World!
The School of Acoustics, Audio and Video
Fingernails scraping on a blackboard? Car alarms? Cutlery scraping on plates? A screaming baby?
The Acoustics, Audio and Video faculty in the School of Computing, Science and Engineering at the University of Salford are on a quest to find the worst sound in the world!
You can help with the project entitled ??Bad Vibes: The Search for the Worst sound in the World! The faculty have set up a website to assist the research into the world??s worst sound. Please visit http://sound101.org/ to take part in the project.
The findings will not only identify the worst sound in the world but will also reveal valuable insights into what makes a sound unpleasant to hear.
The faculty of Acoustics, Audio and Video has cutting-edge technology and high standard teaching facilities; music technology, video suites and audio equipment, which is matched only by the faculty??s excellent reputation for teaching, commercial reverberations into industry, and international research. The school offers courses in Audio and Video systems, Acoustics, Noise Control, Professional Sound Technology, and Audio, Video and Broadcast Technology.
Submitted by: Shelley Deasey, SETPOINT Greater Manchester, 30 November 2005
