"Epistemes of Modern Acoustics" Research Group. Photo: Hartmut Kern, 2018.
Sound cage for experiments in sound localization, in Matataro Matsumoto, “Researches on Acoustic Space,” Studies from the Yale Psychological Laboratory, 5, 1897, 1–75: 3.
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Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
Research Group Leader Viktoria Tkaczyk
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Research Group Leader
Research Group Leader (1 Mar 2015-28 Feb 2020)
Dr., Professor for the History of Knowledge, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The Making of Acoustics in Sixteenth to Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Researchers 2018–19
Visiting Scholar (15 Nov 2019-15 Jan 2020)
PhD, Associate Professor of Musicology, The Netherlands
Instruments of God: Toward a Metaphysics of Music Theory
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-29 Feb 2020)
Engineered Modernity: A Critical History of Computing in People's Republic of China
Visiting Scholar (Sep 2019-30 Sep 2019)
PhD, Professor, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture
"It Was the Nightingale, Not the Jumbo": Acoustic Borderlands at Frankfurt Airport
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2019-31 Oct 2019)
PhD, Full Professor of Science, Technology & Modern Culture, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University
Hidden Ears: Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, and Analyzing Sonic Information, 1960s–the present
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2019-31 Aug 2019)
PhD, Assistant Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fragile Sound, Silent History: Recording Eastern Europe
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2019-31 Aug 2019)
PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Texas A&M University
Acoustics and Governance in Brazil
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2019-29 Feb 2020)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jun 2018-30 Jun 2018)
The Electronic Circuit as Post–Musical Score
Visiting Scholar (Aug 2019-31 Aug 2019)
PhD, Professor, Endowed Chair of Music History, Butler School of Music, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Noisy Politics: Sound, Music, and Violence in an Age of Populism
Research Scholar (1 Jan 2018-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
Tuning the World: A Global History of Acoustics at the Crossroads of Aesthetics, Politics, Science and Industry (1834–1939)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Aug 2016-28 Feb 2020)
MA, Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
John Bulwer (1606–1656): On the Theatricality of Medical Knowledge; Ciphers, Sounds and Ear Trumpets: Acoustics and Espionage in England, 1655-1685
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (6 May 2019-31 Dec 2019)
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2019)
Signal, Symbol, Measure, Model: Acoustic Processing and Computational Knowledge
Visiting Scholar (Aug 2019-31 Aug 2019)
PhD, Curator, Physical Sciences and Medicine Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation, Ontario, Canada
The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Acoustics: Towards an Inventory of Collections in Germany
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (8 Jan 2017-29 Feb 2020)
MA, Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
After Mapping the Avant–Garde: Politics, Discourses and Technologies of the “New” in Postwar “New Music"
Visiting Scholar (Aug 2019-31 Aug 2019)
Artificial "Listening" - from Fechner to Sensor Fusion
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (8 May 2017-28 Feb 2020)
Theater Exhibitions, Exhibition Media, and the Humanities around 1900
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (24 Jul 2017-28 Feb 2020)
Harmonies at Work: Musical Instruments and the Transfer of Knowledge in Early Acoustics
Visiting Scholar (6 May 2019-31 Dec 2019)
Senior Research Scholar, Head of Cooperation and Communication (Since Jan 2008)
Dr.
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