Viktoria Tkaczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 343369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viktoria Tkaczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viktoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Tkaczyk |
| SIGNATURE | TKACZYK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6856-1224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unsound Supplies
Unsound Supplies explores the complex and often hidden provenance of “raw materials” that underpin the rich musical cultures of modernity. The volume comprises ten chapters, each focusing on a specific material used in musical instrument making and the audio-communications industry from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries—from East African ivory and transatlantic-traded rubber to manila paper, Brazilian Pernambuco wood, tropical mahogany…
Hörspiel in the lab
This article focuses on the establishment of new laboratories for radio research in Germany between 1928 and 1945, whereby the new discipline of radio studies and the collective work of artists, engineers and humanities scholars crucially advanced the development of the German Hörspiel (radio play). In turn, the embedding of the Hörspiel in these new ‘radio labs’ serves as an instructive prism for understanding the interdisciplinary and simultane…
Introduction
This introduction to the Focus section “Supplied Knowledge: Resource Regimes, Materials, and Epistemic Tools” provides a framework to analyze critically the ways in which knowledge depends on material supplies. It claims that most scientific technologies of the early modern and modern periods were made possible only by the steady supply of a large variety of so-called natural resources and that the practices necessary to exploit, process, and pro…
Early Sound Archiving and the Making of Scientific Resources
This essay focuses on the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, established in 1900, and its subsequent commitment to collecting music, voices, and sonic evidence from all over the world. But members of the archive managed to embrace the world as a resource in another respect as well: the daily production of cylinder records required large quantities of wax and various other materials that depended on a global system of supply and considerable exploitation…
Testing Hearing
Introduction
Presenting the joint historical and methodological framework of the theme issue “Sounds of Language—Languages of Sound,” this introduction situates the individual contributions within a broader history of the humanities. The eight contributions address the period between approximately 1890 and 1970—from the modern disciplinary formation of knowledge about sound and the rise of the social sciences and humanities to the beginnings of computerized s…
Radio Voices and the Formation of Applied Research in the Humanities
In the 1920s, the emerging technology of radio required appropriate voices, whether in radio announcing, radio drama, or radio documentaries. This article traces this search for new radio voices with particular attention to the work conducted at the radio laboratory, the Rundfunkversuchsstelle, at the Academy of Music in Berlin, led by musicologist Georg Schünemann from 1928 to 1935. The article illuminates how this initiative integrated engineer…
Sonic things
This Introduction presents the key concerns of “Sonic Things: knowledge formation in flux,” a Special Issue of Sound Studies. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies, history of science, and thing studies, we use the term “sonic things” to describe sounds that stand in for other - elusive, inaudible, or ideal - sounds. Emerging from long processes of multidisciplinary knowledge production, sonic things equally have a quality in and of the…
How to turn interior monologues inside out
This paper addresses the interior monologue as a “sonic thing” whose elusive nature prompted a wide range of research initiatives in the long twentieth century. Neurophysiologists, developmental psychologists, psychoanalysts, and linguists shared an increasing interest in what humans hear when talking and listening to themselves. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, they agreed that “interior monologues” or related phenomena such as “inner spe…
Listening to the Archive
For it will retain a perfect mechanical memory of many things which we may forget
Archival Traces of Applied Research
This article discusses gramophone recordings made in the 1920s at the Lautabteilung (sound department) of the Prussian State Library, under the direction of the language teacher and phonetician Wilhelm Doegen. Doegen's Lautabteilung attempted to combine the potential of a scholarly sound collection with that of an acoustic laboratory, appropriating the gramophone as a research technology able to unite multiple disciplines in the humanities and sc…
Research in the history of modern acoustics
In this article, Viktoria Tkaczyk, who leads the research team Epistemes of Modern Acoustics at the Max Plank Institute in Berlin, discusses the ongoing works, the research perspectives and the 'sound' turn within history of sciences. She introduces her working team members and their research objects, which encompass a range of several works dealing with the situation of sound and music within the sciences since the Scientific Revolution. As she …
Recherche en histoire de l'acoustique moderne
Dans cet entretien, Viktoria Tkaczyk, directrice de l'équipe ' Epistemes of Modern Acoustics ' au Max Planck Institute de Berlin traite des travaux en cours, des perspectives de recherche et du tournant sonore dans l'histoire des sciences. Elle présente son groupe de travail et leurs objets de recherche, une série de travaux sur la place du son et de la musique dans les sciences depuis la Révolution scientifique. Elle rend compte de la façon dont…
The Shot Is Fired Unheard
Listening to the Mind
With increasing interest in the representation of histories of mental health in museums, sound has played a key role as a tool to access a range of voices. This essay discusses how sound can be used to give voice to those previously silenced. The focus is on the use of sound recording in the history of mental health care, and the archival sources left behind for potential reuse. Exhibition strategies explored include the use of sound to interroga…
Performativität und Wissen(schaft)sgeschichte
Listening to the Archive
For it will retain a perfect mechanical memory of many things which we may forget
Listening to the Mind
With increasing interest in the representation of histories of mental health in museums, sound has played a key role as a tool to access a range of voices. This essay discusses how sound can be used to give voice to those previously silenced. The focus is on the use of sound recording in the history of mental health care, and the archival sources left behind for potential reuse. Exhibition strategies explored include the use of sound to interroga…
Introduction
This introduction to the Focus section “Supplied Knowledge: Resource Regimes, Materials, and Epistemic Tools” provides a framework to analyze critically the ways in which knowledge depends on material supplies. It claims that most scientific technologies of the early modern and modern periods were made possible only by the steady supply of a large variety of so-called natural resources and that the practices necessary to exploit, process, and pro…
Sonic things
This Introduction presents the key concerns of “Sonic Things: knowledge formation in flux,” a Special Issue of Sound Studies. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies, history of science, and thing studies, we use the term “sonic things” to describe sounds that stand in for other - elusive, inaudible, or ideal - sounds. Emerging from long processes of multidisciplinary knowledge production, sonic things equally have a quality in and of the…
Research in the history of modern acoustics
In this article, Viktoria Tkaczyk, who leads the research team Epistemes of Modern Acoustics at the Max Plank Institute in Berlin, discusses the ongoing works, the research perspectives and the 'sound' turn within history of sciences. She introduces her working team members and their research objects, which encompass a range of several works dealing with the situation of sound and music within the sciences since the Scientific Revolution. As she …
The Shot Is Fired Unheard
Performativität und Wissen(schaft)sgeschichte
The Shot Is Fired Unheard
Listening to the Mind
With increasing interest in the representation of histories of mental health in museums, sound has played a key role as a tool to access a range of voices. This essay discusses how sound can be used to give voice to those previously silenced. The focus is on the use of sound recording in the history of mental health care, and the archival sources left behind for potential reuse. Exhibition strategies explored include the use of sound to interroga…
Listening to the Archive
For it will retain a perfect mechanical memory of many things which we may forget
Archival Traces of Applied Research
This article discusses gramophone recordings made in the 1920s at the Lautabteilung (sound department) of the Prussian State Library, under the direction of the language teacher and phonetician Wilhelm Doegen. Doegen's Lautabteilung attempted to combine the potential of a scholarly sound collection with that of an acoustic laboratory, appropriating the gramophone as a research technology able to unite multiple disciplines in the humanities and sc…
Research in the history of modern acoustics
In this article, Viktoria Tkaczyk, who leads the research team Epistemes of Modern Acoustics at the Max Plank Institute in Berlin, discusses the ongoing works, the research perspectives and the 'sound' turn within history of sciences. She introduces her working team members and their research objects, which encompass a range of several works dealing with the situation of sound and music within the sciences since the Scientific Revolution. As she …
Recherche en histoire de l'acoustique moderne
Dans cet entretien, Viktoria Tkaczyk, directrice de l'équipe ' Epistemes of Modern Acoustics ' au Max Planck Institute de Berlin traite des travaux en cours, des perspectives de recherche et du tournant sonore dans l'histoire des sciences. Elle présente son groupe de travail et leurs objets de recherche, une série de travaux sur la place du son et de la musique dans les sciences depuis la Révolution scientifique. Elle rend compte de la façon dont…
Sonic things
This Introduction presents the key concerns of “Sonic Things: knowledge formation in flux,” a Special Issue of Sound Studies. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies, history of science, and thing studies, we use the term “sonic things” to describe sounds that stand in for other - elusive, inaudible, or ideal - sounds. Emerging from long processes of multidisciplinary knowledge production, sonic things equally have a quality in and of the…
How to turn interior monologues inside out
This paper addresses the interior monologue as a “sonic thing” whose elusive nature prompted a wide range of research initiatives in the long twentieth century. Neurophysiologists, developmental psychologists, psychoanalysts, and linguists shared an increasing interest in what humans hear when talking and listening to themselves. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, they agreed that “interior monologues” or related phenomena such as “inner spe…
Testing Hearing
Introduction
Presenting the joint historical and methodological framework of the theme issue “Sounds of Language—Languages of Sound,” this introduction situates the individual contributions within a broader history of the humanities. The eight contributions address the period between approximately 1890 and 1970—from the modern disciplinary formation of knowledge about sound and the rise of the social sciences and humanities to the beginnings of computerized s…
Radio Voices and the Formation of Applied Research in the Humanities
In the 1920s, the emerging technology of radio required appropriate voices, whether in radio announcing, radio drama, or radio documentaries. This article traces this search for new radio voices with particular attention to the work conducted at the radio laboratory, the Rundfunkversuchsstelle, at the Academy of Music in Berlin, led by musicologist Georg Schünemann from 1928 to 1935. The article illuminates how this initiative integrated engineer…
Introduction
This introduction to the Focus section “Supplied Knowledge: Resource Regimes, Materials, and Epistemic Tools” provides a framework to analyze critically the ways in which knowledge depends on material supplies. It claims that most scientific technologies of the early modern and modern periods were made possible only by the steady supply of a large variety of so-called natural resources and that the practices necessary to exploit, process, and pro…
Early Sound Archiving and the Making of Scientific Resources
This essay focuses on the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, established in 1900, and its subsequent commitment to collecting music, voices, and sonic evidence from all over the world. But members of the archive managed to embrace the world as a resource in another respect as well: the daily production of cylinder records required large quantities of wax and various other materials that depended on a global system of supply and considerable exploitation…
Hörspiel in the lab
This article focuses on the establishment of new laboratories for radio research in Germany between 1928 and 1945, whereby the new discipline of radio studies and the collective work of artists, engineers and humanities scholars crucially advanced the development of the German Hörspiel (radio play). In turn, the embedding of the Hörspiel in these new ‘radio labs’ serves as an instructive prism for understanding the interdisciplinary and simultane…
Unsound Supplies
Unsound Supplies explores the complex and often hidden provenance of “raw materials” that underpin the rich musical cultures of modernity. The volume comprises ten chapters, each focusing on a specific material used in musical instrument making and the audio-communications industry from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries—from East African ivory and transatlantic-traded rubber to manila paper, Brazilian Pernambuco wood, tropical mahogany…
Art (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Acoustics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (5 works) · Cybernetics and Technology in Society (4 works) · History (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works)