The history of the Sound Studies Lab
2012-2014
Research project Functional Sounds.
Funded by the German Research Foundation DFG,
directed by Holger Schulze
2011-2013
Design project Adventures in Sound.
Funded by Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin,
directed by Holger Schulze
2011
Foundation of the Sound Studies Lab,
Funded by the German Research Foundation DFG,
directed by Holger Schulze
Before the Lab
The Sound Studies Lab was founded in 2011. Yet, unsurprisingly, there is a long pre-hisory of the lab: the founder, the research assistants, the guest researchers and the research collaborators of the lab worked together in numerous artistic and design research projects in the last decade.
Note: these projects were not conducted by the lab in the first place. They form a catalog of exemplary projects where members from the lab met and sound studies as a research field was explored. Selected projects are now part of the Sound Studies Lab.
2010
Foundation of the international research network Sound in Media Culture.
Funded by the German Research Foundation DFG,
directed by Holger Schulze
(in cooperation with Maria Hanáček & Jens Gerrit Papenburg)
Universität der Künste Berlin/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2008
Foundation of the artistic research book series
Sound Studies at transcript Verlag Bielefeld, Germany,
edited by Holger Schulze
2008/2009
Design research project
Aural City: Die hörsame Stadt.
Funded by EFRE/ESF,
directed by Holger Schulze;
research assistants: Max Schneider, Georg Spehr et.al.
Universität der Künste Berlin
2008/2009
Design research project
Functional Sounds & Sound Branding.
Funded by the Olympus Imaging Corporation,
research directed by Holger Schulze
(in cooperation with Carl-Frank Westermann)
research assistants: Max Schneider, Georg Spehr, Satoshi Morita et.al.
Universität der Künste Berlin
2007
Symposion Funktionale Klänge
at the Universität der Künste Berlin,
conceptualized & directed by Georg Spehr
(in cooperation with Holger Schulze)
2006-2009
Foundation of the Master of Arts programme in
Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin;
first Head of Department: Holger Schulze
(managing director: Hanna Buhl)
2006
Research project
Anthropology of Sound.
Funded by Universität der Künste Berlin et.al.,
directed by Holger Schulze
2006
Symposion Klanganthropologie
at the Freie Universität Berlin,
conceptualized & directed by Holger Schulze
(in cooperation with Christoph Wulf)
2005-2006
Design research project
The Brand as Artifact.
Funded by Siemens Corporate Communication,
research directed by Holger Schulze
(in cooperation with Carl-Frank Westermann)
Universität der Künste Berlin
2003-2009
The Sound Studies Symposions 1-6
at the Universität der Künste Berlin,
conceptualized & directed by Holger Schulze
(in cooperation with Karl Bartos, Sabine Breitsameter, Carl-Frank Westermann et.al.)
2002-2005
Curricular research, development & implementation
soundXchange.
Funded by the German Federal Department of Education & Research BMBF,
conceptualized by Holger Schulze
(in cooperation with Karl Bartos, Sabine Breitsameter, Carl-Frank Westermann;
institutional head of the project: Martin Rennert, then president of the Universität der Künste Berlin)