Programs, Past Meetings
VIII Vienna, 2003: Music, Acoustics and Technology
SUNDAY, 21 September, Technisches Museum Wien
14.00-16:00 Guided tour in the Albertina with Dr. Monica Faber, Meeting point at Albertina: Albertina Attium, Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
16.30-17.00 Welcome at TMW, coffee
17:00-18:00 Guided tour of music exhibit with Peter Donhauser (TMW)
18:15-18:30 coffee
18:30-19:30 Guided tour of Medien.Welten exhibit with Martin Reinhart (TMW)
20:00-21.30 Welcome with wine and sandwiches
MONDAY, 22 September, Meeting room, 5th level
9:30-9:45 Welcome, Dr.Gabriele Zuna-Kratky (Director, TMW)
Review of Artefacts VII, Robert Bud and Derek Robinson (Science Museum)
Session 1, Music and Technology. Chair: Robert Bud
9:45-10:45
Robert Friedel (U Maryland), “Relationship between the history of technology and the history of music instruments”
Ken Slowik (Smithsonian, NMAH), “Historical Performance Practice in the Late 20th Century: Instruments and Recordings as Mirrors of the Past”
10:45-11:00 coffee
11 :00-12:30
Peter Donhauser, “Electrical musical instruments in the 1930s”
Rebecca Wolff (Deutsches Museum), “The 'Mechanischer Trompeter' of Kaufmann”
John Hasse (Smithsonian, NMAH), “Conquering Time, Borders and Language: What Edison"s Phonograph has meant for music”
12:30-14:00 Lunch at TMW Cafe
Session 2, Music History and Instruments. Chair: Peter Donhauser
14:00-16:00
Michael Wright (Science Museum), “James Watt as a musical instrument maker”
Silke Berdux (Deutsches Museum), “The musical instruments collection of the Deutsches Museum and the 'Thalkirchener Orgel' as a case study”
Margaret Vining and Bart Hacker (Smithsonian, NMAH), “Marching Bands and the late 19th century”
Ingrid Prucha (TMW), “Musical instruments in a technology museum: concepts and didactics”
16:00-16:30 coffee
Session 3, Special Topics. Chair: Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum)
16:30-18:00
Michel Cotte (U Nantes) and Samuel Deniaud, U Tech Belfort-Montbéliard), “Restitution of old machines by the today mechanical CAD tool”
Steve Turner (Smithsonian, NMAH), “Pushing the analogy: the uneasy relationship of acoustics and polarized light"
Peter Donhauser, “Laser vibrometer for investigating surface vibrations”
19:00 Dinner at Medl Brau
TUESDAY, 23 September, Meeting room, 5th level
Session 4, New projects and exhibitions. Chair: Bernard Finn (Smithsonian, NMAH)
09:30-10:30
Rainer Hubert (Ősterreischische Mediathek), “Digitisation at the mediathek“
Silke Berdux (Deutsches Museum), “Digitisation of a unique collection of materials on brass instruments”
Stefan Siemer (Deutsches Museum), “The new exhibition on the history of the Deutsches Museum”
10:30-11:00
Discussion and Review: Music at the Technisches Museum Wien
Discussion and Review: Medien.Welten at the Technisches Museum Wien
11:00-11:15 Coffee
Session 5. Developments at the museums. Chair: Derek Robinson
11:15-12:15
Deutsches Museum (Helmuth Trischler), Smithsonian (Bernard Finn), Science Museum (Robert Bud), Technisches Museum (Manfried Tragner, Manuela Fellner)
General discussion
12:15-13:45 Lunch at TMW Cafe (if desired)