Max Planck Institut for the History of Science
 
 
 
 
 

Section I: Materiality of Sound
14.15 Bernhard Siegert (Weimar): Erzklang. Kulturgeschichte als Signalanalyse
15.30 Coffee-Break
15.30 Peter Szendy (Paris, Nanterre): Klangfiguren (a Hit in the Lab)
16.15 Julia Kursell (Berlin): Sound Objects


THURSDAY, 5TH OCTOBER 06
14.00 Welcome

Section II: Registration, Transmission, Transformation
10.00 Florian Dombois (Bern): 'Muscle-Telephone'. The undiscovered start of audification in the 1870ies
10.45 Coffee-Break
11.15 Henning Schmidgen (Berlin): Silence in the Laboratory. The History of Sound-Proof Rooms
12.00 Jonathan Sterne (Montreal): Cats and people in the Psychoacoustics Lab 1914-1930
12.45 Lunch
14.30 Wolfgang Hagen (Berlin): The Resonance of the Voices. Some Epistemological Remarks on the Radio-Voice
15.15 Coffee-Break

Section III: Experimental Aesthetics
15.45 Douglas Kahn (Davis, CA): VLF and Musical Aesthetics
16.30 Daniel Gethmann (Graz): Ästhetik des Signals

FRIDAY, 6TH OCTOBER 06

SATURDAY, 7TH OCTOBER 06
10.00 Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus (Berlin): Sprechkunst im Berliner Lautarchiv 1920-1933
10.45 Coffee-Break
11.15 Elena Ungeheuer (Berlin): Producing - Representing - Constructing: Towards an Art-Oriented Aesthetical Theory of Action Related to Categories of Experimental Methods
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Myles Jackson (Salem, OR): Standardizing an Aesthetic Quality. Physicists, Musicians, Instrument Makers and Concert Pitch in the Nineteenth Century
13.45 Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin): Commentary
Final Discussion