"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.
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
Services & Administration
Researchers 2018–19
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 Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music, Wellesley College
Liberal Sound: Milton Babbitt and the RCA Synthesizer
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (2 Jul 2018-3 Sep 2018)
PhD. Lecturer in Music, Queen's University Belfast
Tactile Speech
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2019-29 Feb 2020)
Visiting Scholar (Jun 2019-21 Jun 2019)
PhD, Henry and Julia Weisman Schutt Chair in Music Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Political Ecology of Sound Insulation
Visiting Scholar (15 Jul 2018-16 Sep 2018)
Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Sussex
Sound, Materiality and the Social Lives of Objects
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-28 Feb 2019)
PhD candidate
Der Schwingkreis: Schaltungsgeschichte(n) an den Rändern von Musik und Medien
Visiting Scholar (6 Aug 2018-30 Sep 2018)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-30 Nov 2018)
PhD candidate, Department of History, Central European University Budapest
Rationality of Noise: Gathering of Acoustic Information during the Cold War
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2019-30 Apr 2019)
PhD candidate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Inventing the Decibel: An Episode in the History of Sonic Thinking
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 Scholar (1 May 2019-31 Jul 2019)
PhD, Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University
Listening to Nature: Standardized Soundscapes and Imagined Ecologies, 1900–2000
Visiting Scholar (11 Mar 2019-11 Apr 2019)
PhD
Tines and Waves
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2019-30 Apr 2019)
PhD, ERC Research Professor, Faculty of Music and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford
Musica, Vox, Cantus, Sonus: Late Medieval Concepts of Sound and Listening, the Sonic World of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries, and the "Sonic Turn" in the Historical Disciplines Today
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2019)
Signal, Symbol, Measure, Model: Acoustic Processing and Computational Knowledge
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Jan 2019)
PhD, Emeritus Research Director, THALIM Research Unit, Paris
Theatrical Spoken-Word Records in Germany and France, 1950–1970: Repertoire, Production, Distribution, Use
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 Predoctoral Fellow (8 May 2017-28 Feb 2020)
Theater Exhibitions, Exhibition Media, and the Humanities around 1900
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2019-30 Apr 2019)
PhD candidate
Inventing the Decibel: An Episode in the History of Sonic Thinking
Visiting Scholar (Jun 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Tuning Time: Sequences from the History of Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting
Visiting Scholar (15 Mar 2019-15 Apr 2019)
PhD, Professor of History, Princeton University
Sound Effects: Technicians and the Talkies in the American Film Industry, 1925-1933
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (24 Jul 2017-28 Feb 2020)
Harmonies at Work: Musical Instruments and the Transfer of Knowledge in Early Acoustics
Visiting Scholar (Sep 2018-18 Sep 2018)
PhD, Research Group Leader, Research Institute for History and Technology, Deutsches Museum
Music of Metallurgy: Bell-Founding Metal for Musical Instruments
Senior Research Scholar, Head of Cooperation and Communication (Since Jan 2008)
Dr.
Translating Everyday Experience into Social Knowledge: Central European Feuilleton Culture around 1900