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Colloquium | Jul 9, 2019 | 14:00 to 15:30
Tuning the World: Aesthetics, Acoustics, Industry, and Global Politics (1834–1939)
MoreColloquium | Jun 26, 2019 | 18:15 to 19:45
Making Tape: The Regime of Spools, Razors, and Cassettes
MoreFragile Sound, Silent History: Recording Eastern Europe
This project is a study of vernacular recording cultures in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, built on a series of case studies that foreground the te
Beating Reeds: Sounding Appunn’s 1876 Harmonium Tonometers
In November 2018, it was declared that the kilogram, embodied by a platinum cylinder stored in Paris since 1889, would henceforth be defined by the&nb
Sound Effects: Technicians and the Talkies in the American Film Industry, 1925–1933
The story of the transition from silent to sound motion pictures in the United States is a tale filled with drama and conflict, but this history has l
Inventing the Decibel: An Episode in the History of Sonic Thinking
In late 1920s New York, telephone engineers publicly measured city noise using equipment from mass hearing tests, and named the results as percentages
Keyboard Playing and the Reconceptualization of Polyphonic Music in Early Modern Italy
In early modern Italy, seminal changes in the concept and structure of polyphony were rooted in a shift of praxis defined by the increasing role of ke
The Discovery of the Plastisphere—a History of Science of Plastic Pollution
This research and podcast project by guest researcher and journalist Anja Krieger deals with the environmental issue of plastic pollution, which has r
The Sound of Books: West Berlin’s Staatsbibliothek between Postwar City Visions, Organizational Cybernetics, and Heterotopia
In 1978, West Berlin opened its impressive new State Library, the Staatsbibliothek at Potsdamer Strasse, designed by Hans Scharoun around an open, 600
A Political Ecology of Sound Insulation
My project counts the cost paid for sound’s insulation as a reproducible matter of concern. The “political ecology” I am assembling documents the impo