# Andi Schoon [Wikipedia Link](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andi_Schoon) ( 1974 – ) ## Description German-Swiss cultural and media studies scholar; professor at Bern University of the Arts (HKB) and co-head of its transdisciplinary Y Institut. His book *Die Ordnung der Klänge* (2006), on the interplay of the arts from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College, won the Media.Art.Research Award at Ars Electronica in 2009. Co-edited *Das geschulte Ohr*, a cultural history of sonification, and *Postcolonial Repercussions: On Sound Ontologies and Decolonised Listening*. ## Key Tags #theorist #sound #academic #bauhaus #critical-theory ## Essential Works - *Die Ordnung der Klänge: Das Wechselspiel der Künste vom Bauhaus zum Black Mountain College* (2006) - cross-disciplinary history of sound and the arts running from the Bauhaus through Black Mountain College; awarded the Ars Electronica Media.Art.Research Award, 2009 - *Das geschulte Ohr: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Sonifikation* (2012, co-edited with Axel Volmar) - cultural history of sonification, the rendering of data and phenomena as sound - *Postcolonial Repercussions: On Sound Ontologies and Decolonised Listening* (2022, co-edited with Johannes Salim Ismaiel-Wendt) - edited volume on sound, coloniality, and listening practices ## Details Leads a Y Institut research field on auditive cultures at HKB; has run SNF-funded research projects on Paul Bowles's field recordings of traditional Moroccan music and on Swiss cultural diplomacy in South Africa. Trained in systematic musicology, modern German literature, and sociology in Hamburg; PhD 2005. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Sonification]] - co-edited a cultural history of sonification, connecting data-to-sound practices to a longer history of listening ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators - [[Axel Volmar]] - co-editor, *Das geschulte Ohr* (2012) - [[Thomas Strässle]] - co-directs the Y Institut at HKB ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - [[Bern University of the Arts]] - Professor of Cultural and Media Studies; co-head of the Y Institut, since 2007 ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Schoon, Andi. *Die Ordnung der Klänge: Das Wechselspiel der Künste vom Bauhaus zum Black Mountain College*. Transcript, 2006. Winner of the Ars Electronica Media.Art.Research Award, 2009. Schoon, Andi, and Axel Volmar, editors. *Das geschulte Ohr: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Sonifikation*. Transcript, 2012. Schoon, Andi, and Johannes Salim Ismaiel-Wendt, editors. *Postcolonial Repercussions: On Sound Ontologies and Decolonised Listening*. Transcript, 2022. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %%MLA Annotated Bib of Important or relevant secondary citations and critical texts%%