Braxton Boren

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Braxton Boren is Assistant Professor of Audio Technology at American University. He received a BA in Music Technology from Northwestern University in 2008. He was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to attend the University of Cambridge, where he earned his MPhil in Physics in 2010. He completed his PhD in Music Technology at NYU’s Music and Audio Research Laboratory in 2014. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University’s 3D Audio and Applied Acoustics Laboratory from 2014-2016. Braxton’s research focuses on using acoustic simulation techniques to allow performers to perform and record in virtual spaces that no longer exist.

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  • The Soundscape of Quarantine: The Role of Sound During a Public Health Crisis (2020) author(s): Braxton Boren published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people must remain indoors for a very long period of time. To mitigate the deleterious effects of a quarantine, several recommendations are proposed here to improve the soundscape for those under lockdown. Some voluntary and non-voluntary suggestions are offered to reduce low frequency noise transmission in adjacent apartment units. In addition, it is argued that reverberation and binaural rendering would provide a needed change of soundscape for those stuck indoors. Even these small measures may help make a long quarantine more tolerable so that more people stay inside until the crisis is over.
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