Georg Spehr

Editorial staff Sound Studies Bookseries
Research Focus
  • Functional sounds
  • Sound branding
  • Cinema sounds
  • Games sounds
Curriculum Vitae

Georg Spehr (*1967) works as sound director, communication engineer and multimedia designer. Assistant Lecturer at the Universität der Künste Berlin in the MA-programme Sound Studies and at the Fachhochschule Potsdam. Currently he works as editoral staff for the Sound Studies Bookseries and as a design theory consultant at the research project Functional Sounds at the Sound Studies Lab. 1989-1998 he worked as engineer for professional audio equipment and 1999-2002 as multimedia designer for crossmedia and internet projects. Since 2002 he is a freelancer for sound consulting and multimedia design. 2008/2009 he was consultant at the design research project The Aural City | Die Hörsame Stadt (EFRE/ESF 2008/09).

Selected Publications
  • Game Sound. Der Klang der Computerspiele, in: Positionen – Texte zur aktuellen Musik 24 (2011), H. 86: Sound Studies, S. 10-15
  • Funktionale Klänge. Hörbare Daten, klingende Geräte und gestaltete Hörerfahrungen. transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2009 (Sound Studies Volume 2)
  • Audio-Branding. Alles neu?, in: Bronner, Kai & Hirt, Rainer (eds.): Audio-Branding. Entwicklung, Anwendung, Wirkung akustischer Identitäten in Werbung, Medien und Gesellschaft. Nomos Verlag Baden-Baden 2007