Research in the history of modern acoustics

Interview with Viktoria Tkaczyk, Director of the Epistemes of Modern Acoustics, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Bibliographic Data

ID2633711
AuthorsViktoria Tkaczyk (0000-0001-6856-1224, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, corresponding author), François Ribac (0000-0003-4723-0439)
Year2019
Volume13
Issue3
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1760-5393 • E-ISSN: 1760-5393
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/rac.1674
OpenAlexW4318256879
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

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 highlights the importance of some actors who tend to be omitted, she points out how another conception and history of sciences arose. She also shows how sound can be used, like Mach did for example, as a tool of knowledge in order to investigate fieldworks that might not be related to sound at first sight, or to build up laboratories, to produce new objects and so on. She draws a condensed survey of works, very little known in France yet, that combine History of Sciences, Sound Studies and Music Knowledge. Music and sound are addressed from the perspective of the history sciences, including measures and standardization; and simultaneously, the history of sciences is sort of considered through a 're-sonification

Acoustics · Art · Epistemology · History of science · Sociology · Visual arts · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History

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