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Inside the World of Sound | Lab Tour


Highfield Campus

Building: 15 | Wolfson/Rayleigh

Age suitable for:
  • All ages


Accessibility alert:
  • Loud sounds
  • Enclosed spaces
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Inside the World of Sound invites you to play with sound!

Try spatial and immersive audio that surrounds you, explore how noise can be cancelled in real time, and hear how technology shapes the way we listen.

Step into two very different listening environments, one where sound bounces around and another that feels astonishingly silent. Experiencing both is a fun way to feel how our surroundings change what reaches our ears.

The team at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research will be there to chat, share insights and show how these ideas connect to real world areas like audio, acoustics, product design and virtual-reality.

Whether you simply enjoy cool audio tricks or want to dig into the physics behind them, this is a chance to listen, experiment, and discover!