Conor is an Acoustic Consultant at Wardell Armstrong (Part of SLR) based in Glasgow with around 3 years professional experience. As part of his IOA diploma project, he investigated the history and use of horse skulls for acoustic applications. There is an abundance of evidence which shows horse skulls have been found within and under old buildings, particularly in Ireland and across the UK and Scandinavia as well. Accounts from people in the 1800s state that the purpose of the skulls was to provide an acoustic benefit to a room, in many cases described as an ‘echo’.
Although there is a lot of evidence and research on the topic, it exclusively comes from a social or archaeological viewpoint. There had been no quantitative analysis of the effect of the skull from an acoustic point of view offering a theory of the acoustic effect, which therefore was the purpose of the project. Conor will present his research methods and discuss the findings of the investigation which involved the use of real horse skulls.
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