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Instruments of God: Toward a Metaphysics of Music Theory
Histories of music theory in the eighteenth century are generally written as triumphant narratives of the scientific successes of experimental philoso
Visions and Experiments of Radiophonic Composing in the Weimar Republic
When radio made it possible to transmit sounds across chronological and spatial distance, new listening situations and new approaches to the interacti
Archival Impulses in German Radio: Collecting, Ordering and Reusing Sound (1930–1960)
In 1930, journalist Hans Tasiemka reported the pioneering introduction of sound recording and archiving at the Berlin Funk-Stunde station, on the init
Funding Institutions, Volkswagenstiftung
Thinking with Sound: New Agendas in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900
When the outside world is silent, all sorts of sounds can come to mind: inner voices, snippets of past conversations, imaginary debates, retrospective
Institute's Colloquium: Thinking with Sound
MoreA Visual Imprint of Moving Air
Graphical representations of acoustic space confront lay and expert publics with images of phenomena that cannot be seen. Transient, time-based, and e
German Radio and the Development of Electric Music in the 1920s and 1930s
I am currently working on a book-length study of the role of scientific instrument makers, physicists, and later electrical engineers in shaping music
Goethe’s Experiments in Music and Theater, 1791–1817
The decades flanking the turn of the nineteenth century are often considered the most productive years of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s literary and sc
Authors' Voices on Records and Radio 1889-1932
The role of media—and especially of the phonograph and gramophone—in storing and disseminating literary recitation and reading aloud from 1889 onward
After Mapping the Avant-Garde: Music, Experimentalism, Technology, Science
This dissertation project is an interdisciplinary research study on the networks of the first twenty years of the WDR’s Electronic Music Studio in Col