Scandinavian Acoustics
Acoustic advisor
Acoustic advice for studios and other listening spaces.
HI, I’M TOM TRONES
Music, sound
and making things.
I’m Tom, a musician and acoustics engineer in Oslo. Here’s a little of what I do: the music I play, products I’ve worked on, and projects that end up on my workbench.
Based in Oslo, Norway
PRODUCTS &
COLLABORATIONS
COLLABORATIONS
A LITTLE ABOUT ME
It started
with music.
Sound has been part of most things I’ve done, from playing guitar and working in studios to developing earplugs at Minuendo and working on audio at Cisco.
Outside work, I’m often modifying a guitar, building a speaker, or trying to make something around the house work a little better. Some of those projects are collected here too.
The story so far ↗01 / PRODUCTS & COLLABORATIONS
A few things I’ve worked on.
Earplugs, speakers and video calls.
Different projects, plenty of sound.
Minuendo brand · Red Dot 2020Hearing protection
2018 — PRESENTMinuendo Adjustable
Earplugs with an adjustable acoustic filter.
DX80 · Red Dot 2014Video & audio identity
2010 — 2018Cisco collaboration
Sound for video calls and collaboration.
Portable audio
2016 — 2017Sodapop
A little speaker with a bottle attached.
Hearing protection
MinuendoMinuendo LIVE
Earplugs for concerts and rehearsals.
Hearing protection with noise monitoring
MinuendoMinuendo Smart Alert
Earplugs that monitor noise exposure.
Telepresence
2009Tandberg T3 & C90
Audio work on T3 and C90.
Products are collaborative work. Each project describes my role; design awards are credited to the relevant brand or product team.
02 / THE MUSICIAN
Always chasing
that feeling.
Guitarist. Producer. Lifelong listener.
Music is where it started — and still the thread running through everything I do.
↗Funeral
Gospel of Bones
2022–2023 · Lead guitar
Listen on Spotify ↗
↗Profane Burial
Desolate Echoes of Turmoil
Guest lead guitar
Listen on Spotify ↗
↗jonasfs
So far, so good
2025 · Acoustic guitar
Listen on Spotify ↗ALSO ON THE SETLIST
Omnia Moritur Lead guitar · 2025–present
Quindecim Lead guitar · 2023–present
Defective 1999–2004
03 / CAREER & EDUCATION
A winding path.
A common thread.
Sound has taken me from music studios to global technology, from startup product development to the acoustics of physical spaces.
View printable CV ↗Connect on LinkedIn ↗
Lossless AS
Owner & CEO
Product and commercial work around Minuendo’s consumer earplugs.
Minuendo
Co-founder · Chief Product Officer
Building a hearing protection company, from product definition and design to brand, certification and commercialisation.
Cisco
Audio R&D → Project Manager & Audio Identity Lead
Audio identity across collaboration products. Scenario Lab and Project Workplace. Earlier R&D internship in 2010.
Sodapop Audio
Acoustic Advisor
Acoustic advice for an unconventional portable speaker.
Music, production & teaching
ISAK · SunYard · SoundPLAY · NTNU
Music production, sound engineering and teaching. University music technology lecturer in 2006–2007.
Tandberg
Audio R&D intern
Acoustic product development and testing of T3 and C90.
THE FOUNDATIONS
MSc, Acoustics, Electronics
& Signal Processing
NTNU · 2006–2011
Master’s thesis: A method of designing wide dispersion waveguides using FEA.
Additional education ＋
- Mid-Norway Take-Off entrepreneurship programme · NTNU, 2010
- Euroregio Acoustics Summer School · Ljubljana, 2010
- Chinese Economy & Politics · Fudan University, Shanghai, 2008
- Pro Tools 101 & 110 certification · NISS, 2007
04 / OFF THE CLOCK, STILL MAKING
Making things.
On and off the clock.
A workbench, a soldering iron,
and an idea that won’t leave me alone.
Guitars modified & rebuilt.
Custom wiring, laser-cut pickguards, and 3D-printed router templates. A good excuse to bring music, design and engineering into the same room.
01 Sound & spaces ＋
Horn loudspeaker design and construction, four home cinemas with active Genelec monitoring, custom acoustic artwork, office acoustics and advice for home renovations and Foss VGS.
02 Code that solves things ＋
An Arduino farm water monitoring and alarm system running since 2009. A Java pitch-training tool. A Chrome marketplace helper. Ferieles.no ↗. Earplugtests.com ↗. Small tools built around real needs.
03 Making a home work better ＋
Custom furniture, around ten desktop and media computers, and home automation with Homey and SmartThings.
04 Art meets engineering ＋
A MATLAB workflow for dividing artwork into triptychs and polyptychs, then preparing prints for acoustic absorbers. Technical work with a visual result.
05 / BLOG
A few things worth sharing.
IN BETWEEN BLOG POSTS
A few moments
along the way.
GET IN TOUCH
Say hello.
Want to ask about a project, talk music, or just get in touch? Leave me a message.
Based in Oslo, Norway