COMMUNICATIONS WITH LEO BERANEK

摘要

My first significant contact with Leo Beranek was in 1991, and it led to a series of concert hall measurements in the northeastern USA, as well as to the founding of the Concert Hall Research Group (CHRG) in the USA. At the time, there were no email messages but there were many faxes and letters by conventional post. In the 80's and early 90's architectural acoustics sessions at ASA meetings were often mostly verbal descriptions of halls along with photographs of attractive new auditoria, but with little technical information other than a few reverberation time results. To help rectify the lack of more technical information, I organised 3 sessions on "newer" architectural acoustics measurements at the ASA meeting in Baltimore in the spring of 1991. There were interesting papers by authors from 6 different countries, including 13 invited papers and 6 contributed papers.