Healing Soundscapes

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What does it sound like in places that deal with illness and recovery? What do rooms in hospitals and doctors' surgeries need in terms of acoustic and atmospheric design? How can sounds promote well-being? With these questions in mind, we invite you to explore the world of Healing Soundscapes. Healing Soundscapes are health-promoting sound environments that are created under the influence of artistically and spatially designed Musical Soundscape Interventions (MSI). The Healing Soundscapes project develops and researches spatial sound interventions for sensitive hospital areas. The aim is to design the sound environment (the "soundscape") in such a way that the well-being of patients and staff in the rooms is improved.

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program on February 19th
Peter Androsch - Air, air, air

I take acoustics literally. For me it's about listening, the Greek ἀκούειν, and not about tinkering with sound. It's about listening as a creative and political act. This can already be recognized by the word per-son. Sound is the sine qua non, because it simply means THROUGH-KLINGER. Sound guarantees full participation in society, namely that people have a voice and are heard. And not hearing is not possible. We always hear. As protection against danger. And also to hear space. Hearing is the most important sense that informs us about everything behind our backs. For this to work, hearing is largely unconscious. Quite reflexively. We call this fast hearing. In order for the hearing that saves our lives to succeed, we do not know what and how we are hearing. That is the price we pay for fast hearing. There is practically no conscious hearing. But there is integrated, systemic hearing. This means that all the senses are "added together" in the brain. And this results in a meaningful and, above all, consistent picture of the world.

Peter Androsch, University of Art and Design Linz, Austria

Peter Androsch can confidently be described as a universal artist. He is internationally active as a musician, composer, spatial and written artist, researcher, writer and lecturer. As music director of the European Capital of Culture Linz 2009, he founded the Hörstadt, a laboratory for acoustics, space and society (hoerstadt.at). At the University of Art and Design Linz, he heads the Co.Lab Acoustic Ecology (https://www.kunstuni-linz.at/kunstforschung/colabs/colab-akustische-oekologie). In 2023 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Art

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The ligeti center in Hamburg-Harburg is a place of transdisciplinary collaboration where future topics are shaped and developed at the intersection of art, science and innovation. With the Open Lecture Series, we invite international experts to shed light on the topics of our various laboratories from different perspectives and discuss them with the audience.

Our lectures not only serve to exchange knowledge on a professional level, but also to share exciting findings with the world. We therefore invite all interested people to attend!
Lectures and discussions are scheduled to last 1-1.5 hours. After the presentations, there will be the opportunity to stay for a drink and continue the conversation.

All dates at a glance:
04.09., 6 pm - Andrew Rossetti
Environmental Music Therapy (EMT): Modulating Soundscapes in the Hospital Environment

16.10., 6 pm - Antti Ikonen
Friendly Sounds in Children's Hospital

18.11., 6 pm - Marie Koldkjær Højlund
Multisensory artwork and soundscapes in the hospital - an attuning approach in healthcare design

19.02., 6 p.m. - Peter Androsch
Air, air, air

19.03., 6 pm - Tanja Vollmer
The Healing Seven: How sensory perception in hospital influences recovery