Soundscape design in train station for Aural Diver
Jeremy Leung is currently working towards a PhD in Acoustic and Audio Engineering. His practice focuses on experience design and tool making. Including sonic branding for the Kaboom Festival (NL), Curator of Third Place, a Youtube channel promotes Dutch artists with stylized production, maker residency working on urban noise mitigation in Chemnitz (DE), Culture Capital of EU 2025, with CuCu exploring parametric instrument design in Matera (IT), Staples on portable light sculptures in Ljubljana (SI), and builder of the sonic crystal irido (NL) that empowers music practitioners with acoustic tools that are circular, modular, and portable. irido is picked up by AMS Institute for their startup booster program, emerges as BioDesign Challenge finalist, showcased at Schiphol Airport, Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd, De Nijverheid, Mikser Festival 2024 in Serbia, and with its acoustic properties measured at TU Delft.
At its core, this project aims to tackle common aural accessibility barriers in a given hertiage intercity train station, such as speech intelligibility and navigation hardship for the visually impaired, with a bottom-up approach found in literature by the neurophysiologically proven aurally attentive focus group dyad (visually impaired and musicians) to propose non-invasive physical interventions that induce inclusivity and benefit the greater aurally diverse demographics. Concurrently, a top-down perspective further explores the underpinning neuromarkers at the cortical level that correlate to ISO 12913 pleasantness and eventfulness of a given soundscape loan from neuroaesthetics and social cognitive neuroscience studies.