Friday 22nd November 2019
9h-10h Reception and Welcome
Session 1: Historical Perspectives on Hearing, Sound and Health
10h-12.30h
Mara Mills (New York): Testing Hearing with Speech
Jens Gerrit Papenburg (Berlin): Pleasure and Pain with Amplified Sound. A Sound and Music History of Loudspeaker Systems, Germany ca. 1930
Viktoria Tkaczyk (Berlin): Techniques versus Technologies. Smart Hearing around 1900
Joeri Bruyninckx (Maastricht): Producing the Unquiet Quiet: A History of White Noise and Technologies of Sound Conditioning
12.30h-14h Lunch Break
Session 2: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries of Technological Mediated Hearing
14h-16.30h
Jens Schröter (Bonn): Technologies of Silence. On their Archaeology and their Aesthetics
Shintaro Miyazaki (Basel): Smart Hearing? The Relationship of Algorithms and Acoustic Well-Being
Miklas Schulz (Hannover, Essen): Emerging Ways of Hearing in the Context of Re-Produced Speech
Judith Willkomm (Siegen): Hearing like an Animal. Acoustic Wellbeing beyond Human Ears
1630h-17h Coffee Break
Session 3: Neuroscientific Approaches, Design and Auditory Developments
17h-18h
Stig Arlinger (Linköping): Hearing, Consequences of Hearing Impairment and Benefits of Hearing Aids
Rainer Linus Beck (Freiburg): Enhanced Hearing – Signal Processing and Optimization of Hearing Aid Systems
18h-18.30h Wrap Up
19.30h Dinner at Brauhaus Joh. Albrecht. Konradigasse 2, 78462 Konstanz
Saturday 23rd November 2019
Session 4: Smart Hearing? Past and Present Concepts, Practices, Technologies and Experiences of Acoustic Wellbeing
9.30h-12h
Jörg Fachner (Cambridge): Reframing Music, Imagery and Emotion- Neural Dynamics of Shared Hearing in A Healing Setting
Jürgen Tchorz (Lübeck): Measuring Listening Effort: An Attempt to Quantify Mental Exertion
Mike Wright (Wrexham): Ambient Experience for Exposure to Varying Tuning Systems on a Set of Musical Compositions
Jan Rennies-Hochmuth (Oldenburg): Better Hearing for All - Smart Solutions for the Clinical, Subclinical and Normal-Hearing Population
12h-13h Lunch break
13h-14h Concluding Discussion and Further Planning