Dr. Barbara Rüschoff-Thale, born 1962; studied Pre- and Early History, Art History and Classical Archaeology at the Universities of Cologne and Münster. 2002 Ph.D. 1999-2002 senior curator at Westfälisches Museum für Archäologie – Landesmuseum und Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege, Münster. 2003-2008 Director of the LWL-Museum für Archäologie. Since 2008 LWL-Head of Culture Department.
Prof. Dr. Petra Maria Meyer, Professor for Cultural and Media Science at the Muthesius University of Art in Kiel. From 2004 to 2008, she was the Head of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (Forum) of the Muthesius University of Art. She completed her doctor’s degree 1992 (published in 1993 as “Die Stimme und ihre Schrift’) in philosophy at the Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf. Her Habilitationsschrift, “Intermedialität des Theaters” was completed in 2000 in Theatre and Media Science at the Johannes Gutenberg university Mainz and published in 2001. Professional practice for fifteen years as an author and dramaturg at the Studio for Acoustic Art, WDR, Cologne, including many radio broadcasts. Another monograph, “Gedächtniskultur des Hörens”, was published 1997. Research and publications on media-philosophy, media-aesthetics and media-dramaturgy, phenomenology, intermediality, space theory, performance-art, theatre, dance and acoustic art. She has edited the books: “Performance im medialen Wandel” (ed. 2006), “Acoustic Turn” (ed. 2008), “Gegenbilder: Zu abweichenden Strategien der Kriegsdarstellung” (ed. 2009) and: “Intuition” (ed. 2013). Most recently in preperation: “Ephemer”, München 2015.
Prof. Dr. Sabine Sanio, born 1958; 1991-2012 member of the editorial staff of the quarterly magazine “Positionen. Texte zur aktuellen Musik”. 1995-1998 chairwoman of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik. 1995-2004 Conceptual Cooperation Austrian festival for contemporary music “Musikprotokoll”, Graz. 2011-2006 visiting professor at the department for Theory and History at the Berlin Weißensee School of Arts. Since 2009 visiting professor and Director of the department of History of Auditory Culture at the Berlin University of Arts.
Research and publications on 20th-century classical music, relation of art and media and aesthetics of the 20th-century.
Prof. Jörg Udo Lensing: born 1960; studied composition at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen. From 1987 – 1989 he studied (post-graduated) „New Music-Theatre“ with Mauricio Kagel at the Musikhochschule Köln. In 1987 he founded the „Theater der Klänge“ in Duesseldorf. Since 1987 he works as a director, choreographer and composer for theatre music for until now 22 productions of the „Theater der Klänge“ and some commissioned works for other theatres. Several compositions of incidental music for theatres and film music. Since 1990 production of film compositions and sound designs for all films directed by the German film-director Lutz Dammbeck. 1992 guest lecturer in drama direction at the Bauhaus Dessau. Since 1996 Professor of Sounddesign at the Fachhochschule Dortmund. There program responsible for the Curriculum in Sound design within the BA Program Film&Sound and the MA Sound. Director of several Shortfilm-Video- and Documentary-DVD-Projects. Director of the longfilm „Gregorius“ (published on DVD). Author of audiobooks and music-CD´s; Lectures and Workshops for film sound. Articles in Sound- Magazines. Author for the chapter „Sound“ in the Book „Filme machen“ (Verlag 2001). The Book „Sound-Design • Sound-Montage • Soundtrack-Komposition“ was published first in 2006 (2nd in 2009). Co-Author for a Lexikon about Filmmusic (Laaber Verlag). Translator and publisher for theGgerman version of „Audio-Vision“ from Michel Chion. Editor of „Audio-Logo-Vision“ from Michel Chion (Previewed for autumn 2015).
Torsten Nilsson, born 1957; studied history and Ethnology at Umeå University; 1995-2000 manager Olofsfors Bruksmuseum, since senior 2000 curator at Arbetets museum in Norrköping.
Des Coulam, born in 1948; has combined recording sound for radio, film and television with a successful business career. For the last sixteen years he has lived in Paris where his sound practice focuses mainly on recording urban soundscapes, the art of soundwalking and sonic journalism. He is the founder and curator of the Paris Soundscapes Archive, a comprehensive collection of the contemporary sounds of Paris.
Dr. Sławomir Wieczorek, works in the Department of Musicology at the University of Wrocław. He graduated from cultural studies and musicology. His research interests include music and politics, past soundscapes, and twentieth century music history. He is a member of the Soundscape Research Studio and the Witold Lutosławski Society. In 2014 his PhD thesis on discourse about music in Stalinist Poland was published by Wrocław University Press.
Severine Janssen, born 1974; studied Philosophy at University of Liège. Worked as redactor, professor and researcher at GERM (Sociology Institute, University of Brussels). Since 2009, she coordinates ‘Bruxelles Nous Appartient-Brussel Behoort Ons Toe (BNA-BBOT)’, an organization dedicated to the sound memory, past, present and future of Brussels through the stories and memories of its inhabitants.
Richard Ortmann, born 1955; started building the sound archive Ruhr, while simultaneously producing work for the WDR’s Ruhr branch; Geschichte geht nicht auf ˗ immer bleibt ein Rest with the Dortmund History Workshop was the first Audio˗City˗Guide, edited by Frank Hübner at the WDR’s Ruhr branch; For Klaus Schöning at Studio Akustische Kunst, WDR, he produced Einmal Herne und zurück as part of the “Metropolis” series, also included in the River Run compilation; Numerous sound installations for permanent exhibitions in museums in the Ruhr ˗ see also the sound performance Gerhard Mercator ˗ Schätze der Kosmographie in Duisburg; realized 2006 the first Sound˗bridge between Katowice (Upper Silesia) and Katernberg (Essen, Ruhr), in 2014 realisation of the trinational PLDEFL ˗ a Live Stream between coal (Jaworzno, Upper Silesia), beer (Dortmund, Ruhr) and iron (U4 Uckange, Lorraine) at the Dortmund U, Zentrum für Kunst und Kreativität; lectures and concerts about sounds, history and (post)industrialisation, quite recently at Feuer und Stahl, Kino und Kunst im Kohlekrahn, produced by the Saaländisches Filmbüro; In 1982 founder of the brass band schwarz/rot Atemgold 09; in 2008 co˗founder of the Music Information and Documentation Center Ruhr.
Uta C. Schmidt, born 1958; studied history, art history and anthropology, PhD in theory of history; since the beginnings she accompanied the building up of the Soundarchive Ruhr as historian and anthropologist; currently research associate and visiting lecturer at the University of Duisburg˗Essen; completed numerous (historical) projects oscillating between media, gender, representation, power; various publications about the ethnography of radio appropriation in the NS and in the early GDR; studies on sounds and memory, see The signal of “Minister Stein”. Civic participation in a suburb of Dortmund/ Ruhr/ Germany, in: Instytut Ekologii Tenerów Uprzemysłowionych w Katowicach (ed), Krajobraz zbudowany na węglu, Katowice 2008, p. 44˗55; research on the historicity of the human sensorium; conflictual studies on sounds and society; staff member of www.frauenruhrgeschichte.de and curator of the DA. Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst.
Dr. Siegfried Saerberg, born 1961; studied Sociology, Philosophy, Political Science, History and Ethnology at the University of Cologne, Konstanz and Dortmund. 1990-1992 research fellow at the department of sociology at Konstanz University. Since 1993 exhibition manager and art director of several projects on hearing and blind people. 2005 Ph.D at the University of Dortmund. 2007-2009 research fellow at the Department of Sociology, University Dortmund. Lectures at the Universities of München, Fulda, Köln und Hamburg on Disability Studies and Sociology of disability.
Outi Penninkangas, born 1970; studied History and Journalism at the University of Tampere. 1999 -2004 Curator at the Museum Centre Vapriikki. Sice 2004 Curator at the Rupriikki Media Museum. Currently she is a project manager of National Game Museum of Finland focusing to open the museum 2017.
Anders Mildner, born 1968; studied Art History, Press History and Swedish at Lund University. Member of pop group Beagle. Worked as a reporter and editor for 20 years. Author of ”Koltrasten som trodde att den var en ambulans” (Volante 2012) – a book about sound and society – and seven anthologies about media, internet, politics and journalism. Today: head of content and communication at Altitude Meetings.
Helga Kleinen, has a diploma in cultural management. She is a member of the Board of the federal association „Initiative Hören e.V.“ and its executive director. Since 1997 she has been working as an expert on educational questions in the “Schule des Hörens e.V.” and as head of the following projects: „ AUDITORIX – Hören mit Qualität“ (auditorix.de), a cooperation with the Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen (the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia), "Olli Ohrwurm" (educational media for kindergarden and primary schools for the Bavarian ministry of Health), the computer game and website project radio108.de, in cooperation with the Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (Federal Centre for Health Education). With the websites auditorix.de and radio108.de Kleinen is a member of the Seitenstark association (www.seitenstark.de), a network of websites for children, and in 2010 became the head of its board.
Monika Widzicka, born 1985; studied History and Ethnology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Since 2012 Curator at the Department of Technology, Industry and Municipal Engineering at the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow
Fields of interest: History of Everyday Life, Sound History, Historical Reenactment.
Konrad Gutkowski, M.A., born 1982; studied History and German literature at Ruhr-University Bochum and Jagiellonian University Kraków. 2009-2012 research assistant at the Historical Institute, University of Hagen. Since 2013 research assistant at the LWL-Industry Museum and staff member of the EU-Project “Work With Sounds”. Research on Theories of History, Industrial History, Sound History, sonic artifacts.
Dr. Gordon Kampe, born 1976; studied composition, musicology and history at School of Music and Theatre in Rostock and at Ruhr-University Bochum. 2008 Ph.D. in musicology. Since 2009 lecturer at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen and member of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2014 visiting professor for musicology at the Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen. Various Awards such as Stuttgarter Kompositionspreis and Folkwangpreis.
Beate Schlanstein, born in 1961; studied Romance languages, English, Political Science and History in Bochum, Paris and Hamburg; since 1990 editor for the West German Broadcasting Corporation, Cologne. Schlanstein has made films and moderated documentaries on TV. She specializes in documentaries and docudramas related to history and contemporary. Schlanstein also lectures on the representation of history in media at several universities. In 2015 she received the Grimme-Award for her editorial work on the documentary series "Akte D ".
Steven Bigras,born in Calgary Alberta Canada; studied Sound Design for Visual Media at Vancouver Film School in 2006. 2007-2009 worked in the post production industry in Vancouver working in all aspects of audio post production at Western Post a division Keystone Entertainment. In 2009 he became an Audio Artist for BioWare ULC a division of Electronic Arts and worked on the Mass Effect and Dragon Age video game franchises. In September 2014 he transferred over to EA – DICE and is currently working on the next Battlefield game as a Lead Sound Designer.
Helen Wagner, born 1990 in Essen; studied History and Philosophie in Münster and worked as a lecturer and researcher. She is presently doing her master’s degree in Public History at the Free University Berlin und research assistant in Dr. Daniel Morat’s project on "Klanglandschaft der Großstadt" (metropolitan soundscape).
Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski is a violinist, composer and sound artist who uses historical sound recording and reproduction apparatus and obsolete media to make contemporary mechanical-acoustic music. His work invites us to listen to the present through the audio technologies of the past, through recordings, installations and live historical re-enactments. His numerous international projects in this field have combined wax cylinder phonographs, wind-up gramophones and antique disc recording machines together with live musicians and even singing canaries. In 2012, Aleks was appointed as the very first sound artist-in-resident at the Science Museum, London, where he created performances, installations and radio broadcasts based on recordings and research of the collections. In 2013 he co-created the audio-visual installation Lichtklangphonogramm at the Ethnological Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, inspired by the Berlin Phonogram Archive, as part of the Humboldt Lab Musik Sehen project. His large-scale installation, In Search of Perfect Sound, featured a giant, newly reconstructed exponential horn loudspeaker from the 1930s in an exhibition and event series at the Science Museum’s Media Space in 2014. He is currently a Research Associate at the Science Museum, London, and the Principal Investigator for the Museum’s Music, Noise and Silence research network project.
Dr. Kathrine Sandys is an academic, practitioner and researcher in site-specific scenographic practice. As well as her role as the Interdisciplinary Curriculum Leader at Rose Bruford College, she also lectures and tutors across the performance sound and lighting design programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. As a practitioner she works across performance, museum and gallery sectors as designer, curator, artist and collaborator.
Dr. James Kennaway is a Historian of Medicine at Newcastle University, having previously worked at Oxford, Stanford, Durham and Vienna. He has written extensively on music and medicine. His monograph “Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease” examined fears of the medical dangers of music from the glass harmonica to backward messages in Heavy Metal songs. His edited volume “Music and the Nerves, 1700-1900” looked at the long history of interaction between music and neurology. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the London Science Museum, engaged on a project on sound and music.
Lisa Landes, born 1980; studied English, French and History in Frankfurt am Main and Reading, England. 2005–2009: Worked as a Copy Editor at White Star Verlag, Wiesbaden. 2009–2013: Online-Editor for European History Online (http://ieg-ego.eu/) at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz. Since 2013 part of the DDB Team at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main. Work duties include: Communicating with and counseling of (prospective) data providers, coordinating the DDB help desks, internal public relations, reports on quarterly growth of DDB content.
Dr. Barbara Wiermann, studied Musicology, Philosophy, and Romance Studies. 1995-2000 Research Assistant, Bach-Archive Leipzig. 2001-2003 Traineeship in superior library services, State Library of Berlin (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). 2003-2014 Library Chief of the Music and Theatre College Leipzig (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig). Since 2015 Music department director of the Saxon State Library, State and University Library-Dresden.
Alexandr Georgievich Kalmykov, studied history at Leningrad State University. Research in the area of political history of Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries, museology, including forms of museum presentation, museum exploratory tools, museum audio- and multi-media technologies and installation techniques in museum design, planning and creation of museum exhibitions, educational programs for radio and television. Main publications: On several contemporary challenges of creating a stationary exposition in Russian historical museums//21st century Museum: dreams and reality, from the files of the Interregional Research and Practical Conference, October 6-7, St.Petersburg 1999. Sound as one of the most important tools in museum presentation//Museum and problems of "cultural tourism:" from the files of the Round Table Discussion-April 24th, 2003. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg 2003. Museum object and museum presentation in the installation space of the new exhibition of the SMPHR//Historical museum as a reflection of changes, 1991-2011, from the files of International Research and Practical Conference, October 5-6, St. Petersburg 2011.
Sybille Greisinger, studied art history, philosophy and pedagogy at the Technical University-Karlsruhe (Technische Universität Karlsruhe), the Free University Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) as well as at the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln). Following curating activities within the framework of a collaborative project of LMU with the Bavarian State Painting Collection (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen), she worked in the online editorial offices of the art history research platform “arthistoricum.net” at the Central Institute for Art History (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte) in Munich. Since 2006, she has been active on the advisory council for non-governmental museums in Bavaria in the area of digital communication, and since 2013 has been part of the online editorial staff of the International Museum Day. Sybille Greisinger is co-founder and organizer of the “aufbruch. museen und web 2.0” (2011/2012) convention, the stARTcamps München (2012-2015) and a founding member of “Kulturkonsorten“.
Florian Hartlieb, is a German composer and media artist whose work and life are centered in Bochum. He studied composition at the Folkwang University of the Arts (Folkwang Universität der Künste) in Essen as well as at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien). Hartlieb held a scholarship of excellence from Folkwang University and has been distinguished through multiple international prizes for composition. His works are performed regularly at renowned festivals and conferences.
Museum of Work, Sweden
La Fonderie, Belgium
The Fisnish Labour Museum Werstas
Museum of Municial Engeneering, Poland
Technical Museum of Slovenia