The Acoustic Directions Team
Part of Acoustic Directions’ success is the enjoyment of a collaborative professional relationships that we have fostered. Long-term professional friends actively contribute to our projects and bring a level of skill and experience to each project that is quite rare. This collaboration yields huge benefits in terms of innovation, quality, skill diversity, cross-pollination of thought, project approach and project continuity.
Our team’s skills encompass acoustics, electro-acoustics, electronics, and audio.
Glenn Leembruggen
Principal
Glenn is a highly-skilled professional engineer with over 35 years’ experience in acoustics, sound systems and audio. With a passion for architectural acoustics and amplified sound, he has designed the acoustics for major public buildings in Australia and New Zealand along with many award-winning sound systems. Glenn is a world leader in the design of sound systems that deliver high intelligibility in acoustically-challenging situations and is passionate about creating environments with a high degree of the acoustic comfort for occupants and listeners .
Underpinning Glenn’s work is his deep theoretical understanding of the physics of sound and electro-acoustics and an unusually-high listening acuity. He is also a seasoned expert acoustical witness in courts and tribunals also provides forensic audio analysis for criminal court cases.
Glenn is currently researching the prediction of patron noise in bars and restaurants, modelling of acoustical absorption behaviour, loudspeaker array design and headphone technology. Glenn is an active member of the maintenance team for the IEC standard for the measurement of speech intelligibility by Speech Transmission Index and the SMPTE B Chain technical committee
Linda Trevor
Practice Manager
Camille Hanrahan-Tan
Acoustic Consultant
Camille enjoys working with clients to help them achieve desired acoustic environments and to improve the quality of these environments on an every-day basis. Her interest in research and attention to detail form the basis of the thorough work she produces. She holds a Master of Design Science (Audio and Acoustics) from the University of Sydney and is currently a graduate member of the Australian Acoustical Society.
Camille has a passion for music and plays violin in a number of ensembles in Sydney’s Inner-West. She enjoys attending live concerts in a number of prominent music venues which aligns with her interest in the acoustics of performing and rehearsal venues and the effect that the acoustics of these spaces have on the musicians and audiences.
Kate Morton
Finance Director
Kate is a director of Acoustic Directions and the company’s financial administrator. With a postgraduate degree in administration, Kate’s varied career has involved administration, editing trade and medical journals, and public relations for sporting identities. She still provides editing services for academics for their publications and submissions.