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The Rest Is Just Noise

Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman

The Rest Is Just Noise is a monthly podcast exploring the relationship between sound and our cities. Each episode our passionate and excitable hosts (three soundscape researchers) are joined...

Episodes

20 of 46 episodes

Spectres, Camouflage & Unruly Sound with Fiona Smyth

In the beginning there was a morass of Unruly Sound but then came the Acousticians. Pistols were fired. To record the introduction for today...

43:37Jun 30, 2025

Soundscape Odyssey Québécois with Edda Bild

Ben là, we recorded this episode during the two days in May 2024 while travelling through Montreal, Québec (CA). Edda Bild (la ville sonore)...

27:46May 31, 2025

Urban Soundscapes in Microscope with Usue Ruiz Arana, Richard Bentley, Sarah Jones-Morris et al.

First of all, thanks for coming! Today's episode was recorded in Microscope, Dalston last June at Usue Ruiz Arana's book launch, a...

46:50Jan 31, 2025

Left Ear Right Ear with Lola de la Mata

Left Ear Right Ear Pink Noise Some listeners may find some of the sounds in this episode disturbing. In today's episode, we meet with a...

56:16Dec 17, 2024

#WiA special series with Jude Brereton

Welcome to Episode 7 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have the fabulous Prof. Jude Brereton from the University...

46:21Nov 5, 2024

#WiA special series with Mariana Lopez

Welcome to the Episode 6 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have Professor Mariana Lopez with us. Mariana is a La...

51:36Jul 7, 2024

La ville sonore avec Catherine Guastavino

For today's episode, our hosts Francesco and Andrew met up with Prof Catherine Guastavino in Ottawa, during the May meeting of the Acou...

23:35May 28, 2024

#WiA special series with Reena Mahtani

Welcome to the Episode 5 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have a very special guest with us - Reena Mahtani. Re...

42:15Apr 29, 2024

Soundscape Gentrification with Bethan Prosser

...If you're sitting, come to me... In today's episode we meet the soundscape trespasser and researcher, Dr Bethan Prosser, who is...

34:44Mar 24, 2024

#WiA special series with Alice Eldridge

Welcome to the Episode 4 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have a wonderful guest with us - Professor Alice Eldr...

48:05Feb 14, 2024

Complex Auditory Scenes with Maggie McMullin

For this episode, Andrew recorded an interview with Maggie McMullin, a researcher at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Indeed, this episode i...

22:13Jan 31, 2024

Sensory Urbanism with Jieling Xiao

Sounds, and then soundscape and planning and then urban sensory planning. We are expanding on our usual scope on sounds towards smell and se...

30:19Dec 26, 2023

#WiA special series with Helen Sheldon

Welcome to the Episode 3 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have a very special guest with us - Helen Sheldon fro...

36:46Dec 20, 2023

Listening to Landscapes with Usue Ruiz Arana

In today's episode we have some big words in the title and with Usue Ruiz Arana, a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Newcastle Univ...

31:02Nov 20, 2023

Radio Utopia: La Biennale di Venezia 23 with Carlotta Darò and Nicolas Tixier

Welcome to The Rest Is Just Noise, a monthly podcast about what do architects & acousticians, researchers & artists, engineers & academics h...

42:12Oct 3, 2023

#WiA special series: Sustainable Careers with Angela Lamacraft

Welcome to the Episode 2 of the special series of Women in Acoustics podcast. Today we have a very special guest with us - Ms Angela Lamacra...

36:51Sep 4, 2023

Cities and Memory (and Microphones)

For today's episode we went on a walk through a maze of alleyways in Central London to meet Stuart Fowkes, the founder of Cities and Me...

34:48Aug 22, 2023

Urban Sound Symposium 2023

Your hosts Francesco, Andrew and Tin went to the 3rd edition of the Urban Sound Symposium, locally organised by researchers at La Salle Camp...

26:06Jul 18, 2023

#WiA special series: Bubbles Everywhere with Eleanor Stride

Today we celebrate the #INWED23 with the first episode in our new special series Women in Acoustics #WiA, led by Dr Hasina Begum, EDI Champi...

41:03Jun 19, 2023

Engaging with Everyday Sounds and Marcel Cobussen

Stop - listen to the sounds around you! Our today's guest is Marcel Cobussen, Professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy at Lei...

53:54Jun 2, 2023