Dr. des. Axel Volmar is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department Department of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University. He is a member of the international research network “Auditory Knowledge in Transition” (Hör-Wissen im Wandel) funded by the German Research Foundation and is the chair of the working group “Auditory Culture and Sound Studies” within the German Association of Media Studies. In his dissertation he has studied scientific listening practices within the natural sciences after 1800. He has co-edited collected volumes on auditory media cultures (with Jens Schröter, 2013), the cultural history of data sonification (with Andi Schoon, 2012) and time-critical media (2009).
Recent publications include:
– “In Storms of Steel: The Soundscape of World War I and its Impact on Auditory Media Culture During the Weimar Period,” in Sounds of Modern History: Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe, ed. Daniel Morat. Berghahn Books, New York, 2014.
– “Listening to the Cold War: The Nuclear Test Ban Negotiations, Seismology, and Psychoacoustics 1958–1963,” in Osiris 28 (2013).
– “Sonic Facts for Sound Arguments: Medicine, Experimental Physiology, and the Auditory Construction of Knowledge in the 19th Century,” in Journal of Sonic Studies 4 (2013).
More information on Axel Volmar is available on academia.edu or his website.