How do designers, sound artists and researchers speak about sound in the recently established research field of sound studies? What are the most urgent research questions and issues? What are the different methods they apply to research on or to design and work artistically with sound? And what are their findings - in research and in the arts?

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How do human beings experience sonic environments under historically and culturally changing circumstances – and what are the epistemological implications of such a turn to an experiential hearing perspective in the wider field of sensory studies?

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How do human beings experience mediatized, non-verbal auditory signs, so-called functional sounds – and how can a design theory of auditory signs be described in terms of a cultural theory?

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Which transformations can be observed in the cultural history of sound by the rise of media culture – in practices and concepts, as well as in artifacts and technologies? Which methods are appropriate to explore how the scientific entity of sound is constituted in historical and contemporary media culture?

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How do human beings and animals and things live together with all the sounds and noises, tones and signals of their times? How do they shape and design sounds – and how do they perform via sounds and explore their world, even in unknown and in maybe only superficially known cultures?

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Is there such a thing as inhuman music created by animals, machines or mere accidents? - And if not: Can we even imagine a world in which only human beings would be capable of performing an aesthetic approach to their world?

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