Sound and its reception are the subject of numerous academic disciplines as well as fine arts: Musicians and sound artists create artifacts in sound which both influence and reflect the reception of sound on individual and societal levels. Musicology is the accompanying academic discipline. Sound as an everyday phenomenon, source of knowledge, as well as artistic practice is explored within the interdisciplinary research field Sound Studies. Approaches from History, Cultural Studies, Art History, Sociology, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Literary and Media Studies are employed to investigate sound and the ways in which it is perceived.

Auditory media cultures and the perception, conception and constitution of reality associated with them are understood as being of equal rank to visual culture, whereby the boundaries between the methodological approaches of sound studies and visual studies are permeable. The assumption of a genuine spatio-temporality of audio as well as visual media or the entanglement of fleetingness and persistence in both media forms forms a vanishing point for the examination of sonority and visuality. With such a turn towards visuality research in the context of music and sound art, the horizon of Auditory Perspectives was expanded, which will be continued as an approach in this section. A critical view of actors, practices, technologies, medialities and materialities, but also of strategies of popularisation and ideological concepts that can be inscribed in auditory practices and technologies, is equally relevant.

The section Auditory Perspectives offers a platform for these diverse approaches to phenomena of hearing and listening; the acoustic, auditory and sonic; sound design and composition as well as visual practices in sonic arts. We publish artistic and academic contributions concerned with sound.

contact: auditive-perspektiven@kunsttexte.de

Editors

Gabriele Groll, musicologist. Currently research fellow at Rostock University of Music and Drama as part of the project “Erich Wolfgang Korngold Werkausgabe”. Research activities at the Museum of Musical Instruments in Berlin, the University of Potsdam and in various editions (Hanns Eisler, Giuseppe Sarti). Lectureships at several universities including HU Berlin and TU Dresden. PhD thesis on Visual Music as Artistic Research.

Stephanie Probst, musicologist. Since 2021 holds a tenure-track position at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Previous research and teaching positions at the Universities of Cologne, Cambridge (ERC-Project “Sound and Materialism in the 19th Century”), and Potsdam. Her dissertation (Harvard University, 2018) investigates theories of melody in the early 20^th century, at the intersection of music theory, psychology, and the visual arts. New research project on instruments and technologies for musical inscription in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Julia H. Schröder, musicologist. Research areas in contemporary art music, sound art, music and dance, music/sound design in theatre, sound studies, concert situations. Book publications and lectures. Research projects and teaching positions at several universities, currently in Berlin.