Tkaczyk, Viktoria – Testing Hearing

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Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. CONTENTSTesting Hearing: An IntroductionAlexandra Hui, Mara Mills, and Viktoria TkaczykSorting and Screening Human Hearers:Testing the Culturally Molded EarTesting Hearing with SpeechMara MillsThe Testing of a Hundred Listeners: Otto Abraham’s Studies on Absolute Tone ConsciousnessViktoria TkaczykMurray Island versus Aberdeenshire: Contextualizing the Cross-Cultural Hearing Tests of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, 1898-1899Sebastian KlotzDesigning Instruments, Calibrating machinesHearing PerfectionEmily I. DolanOpelt’s Siren and the Technologies of Musical HearingAlexander RehdingThe Software Passes the Test When the User Fails It: Constructing Digital Models of Analog Signal ProcessorsJonathan SterneManaging Sound, Assessing SpaceTo Hear As I Do: The Concessions of Hearing in Taiwan’s Noise Management SystemJennifer HsiehTesting Spatial Hearing and the Development of Kunstkopf Technology, 1957-1981Stefan KrebsAbsorption, Transmission, Reflection: Testing Materials in the LaboratoryRoland WittjeWorld as Testbed:Testing beyond Human Auditory PerceptionOf Silent Sirens and Pied Pipers: Auditory Thresholds and High-Frequency Technologies of Animal Control Joeri BruyninckxTesting the Underwater Ear: Hearing, Standardizing, and Classifying Marine Sounds from World War I to the Cold WarLino Camprubi and Alexandra HuiThis Is Not a Test: Listening with Gunther Anders in the Nuclear AgeBenjamin SteegeAfterwordHans-Jorg Rheinberger and Trevor PinchTkaczyk, Viktoria – Testing Hearing