«I hear terrible noise» - Noise in music and medicine
June 19 to 21, 2026
Concept and organization
Dr. Dr. David Bächinger, Senior Physician, Department of Ear, Nose, Throat and Facial Surgery, University Hospital Zurich
Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken, Director, Institute of Musicology, University of Zurich
Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Director of the Department of Music, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main
Venue
Musicology Institute of the University of Zurich
The symposium sees itself as a contribution to the debate at the interface of art, occupational health and safety and hearing experience - and as a source of inspiration for interdisciplinary exchange between musicology, otology, acoustics research and artistic practice.
