Oct 21-22, 2016
Testing Hearing: Authors' Workshop
- 09:30 to 16:45
- Workshop
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
10:15-10:30 Introduction by the organizers
10:30-10:45 Information about proposal process (Marta Tonegutti, Editor, Music, University of Chicago Press)
10:45-11:15 Joeri Bruyninckx (MPIWG) Introduction to the Database "Sound & Science"
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Viktoria Tkaczyk (MPIWG/HU) The Testing of Hundred Listeners: Otto Abraham's Studies on "Tone Consciousness." Comments by Benjamin Steege (Columbia University)
12:15-13:00 Sebastian Klotz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Murray Island versus Aberdeenshire: Cross-cultural Hearing Tests and the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, 1898/99. Comments by Jennifer Hsieh (Stanford University) and Viktoria Tkaczyk (MPIWG/HU)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Jennifer Hsieh (Stanford University) "To Hear as I Do": The Concessions of Hearing in a Noise Management System. Comments by Sebastian Klotz (MPIWG)
14:45-15:30 Joeri Bruyninckx (MPIWG) Electrified Equivalence: Testing Avian and Human Hearing in Twentieth-Century Bioacoustics. Comments by Stefan Krebs (University of Luxembourg)
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:30 Mara Mills (New York University) Useful Hearing. Comments by Jonathan Sterne (McGill University)
16:30-17:15 Stefan Krebs (University of Luxembourg) Testing Spatial Hearing: The Development of the Neumann KU80 Dummy Head. Comments by Alix Hui (Mississippi State University)
Saturday, 22 October
10:00-10:45 Benjamin Steege (Columbia University) The Test Is No Longer A Test: Günther Anders and the Experimentalization of Hearing Under the Bomb. Comments by Lino Camprubí (MPIWG)
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Roland Wittje (IIT Madras) Absorption, Transmission, Reflection: Testing Materials in the Laboratory. Comments by Mara Mills (New York University)
11:45-12:30 Lino Camprubí (MPIWG), Alix Hui (MSU) Testing the Underwater Ear: Hearing, Standardizing, and Classifying Marine Sounds During the Cold War. Comments by Roland Wittje (IIT Madras)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Jonathan Sterne (McGill University) How Signal Processors Hear: Comparing Sonic Technologies and Their Models. Comments by Joeri Bruyninckx (MPIWG)
14:15-14:30 Break
14:30-15:15 Closing Discussion