Maximilian Haberer
Vita
Dr. Maximilian Haberer is a research associate at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
He studied Cultural Media Studies and Musicology in Freiburg, Vienna, Düsseldorf, and at Pennsylvania State University (PA, USA). In addition to the culture, aesthetics, and epistemology of auditory media, his research focuses primarily on listening cultures of algorithmic music recommendations, machine listening, and methods of automated voice analysis and synthesis. His dissertation on the aesthetics, materiality, and sound concepts of audio tape was published in July 2024 in the series acoustic studies düsseldorf.
Research Focuses
- Culture, Aesthetics, and Materiality of Auditory Media
- Historicity and Technicity of Listening Cultures
- Music and Digitality / Algorithmic Music Reception and Distribution
- Theories and Practices of Sonic Subjectivation
- Auditory Media Culture(s) of the Audio Tape
- Machine Listening
- Voice Analysis and Synthesis // Voice Cloning // Vocal Biometrics
Publications
Soundcinema
Soundcinema Düsseldorf is a recorded-sound festival for experimental music and electroacoustic sound art. As part of the festival, ten selected works, each with a maximum length of ten minutes, are presented. Following the presentations, two prizes (one per category) will be awarded by a jury of experts, and one prize will be awarded by the audience.
I don’t know if a “manual” studio—where you have to produce sound elements one by one, and where you spend a lot of time cutting, splicing, and synchronizing audio tapes, that is, doing purely manual work—would really be such a big disadvantage. All of that has significant advantages for compositional thinking.
György Ligeti [transl. MH]