Experiencing Sound Psychology through Listening

Workshop will be held in Geman language with listening sessions and supplementary lectures.

Experiencing Tonpsychologie Through Listening
The listening experiments in Carl Stumpf’s Tonpsychologie

The workshop builds thematically on the 8th Annual Conference of the Carl Stumpf Society, which took place in 2018 at the same venue. At that conference, we worked toward a re-evaluation/reappraisal prompted by the English translation of Tonpsychologie.

Stumpf investigates the perception of pitch by means of a wide range of listening experiments, which he describes in Tonpsychologie. In the workshop, we want to replicate selected experiments as examples and compare our own listening perceptions with the observations reported by Stumpf.

The stimuli will be generated in advance using audio software and will be presented during the workshop either via loudspeakers or via headphones. Please bring a playback device with high-quality sound reproduction and a pair of headphones.

The listening sessions will be framed by additional lectures.

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Programme 

Friday, 13 February 2026

Location: Prague, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Jilská 361/1
Prague 1, 110 00

1:00 p.m. Welcome
1:30 p.m. Martin Ebeling: The listening experiments in the psychology of sound by Carl Stumpf followed by: 1st listening session: tone fusion

4:00 p.m. Break

4:30 p.m. Günther Rötter: Carl Stumpf in Prague
5:15 p.m. Jan Reinhard Christian v. Ehrenfels on auditory neurophysiology, Gestalt, time integration, and the neuronal representation of melody

6:00 p.m. Group dinner

Saturday, 14 February 2026

10:00 a.m. Guided walk through the Old Town

12:30 p.m. Lunch

from 2:00 p.m. Talks

Location: Prague, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Jilská 361/1
Prague 1, 110 00

2:00 p.m. Hynek Janoušek: On how to get from Deleuze to Stumpf.
2:45 p.m. Guillaume Frechette

3:30 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m. Johannes Kotschy: The inherent laws of scale formation in music
4:45 p.m. Reinhard Kowal-Gradl: One-sided double hearing
5:30 p.m. Martin Ebeling: 2nd listening session: overtones

7:00 p.m. Dinner

Sunday, 15 February 2026

Location: Prague, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Jilská 361/1
Prague 1, 110 00

9:30 a.m. Felix Thiessen: Who can hear the needle in the haystack?
10:30 a.m. Martin Ebeling: 3rd listening session: listening out and analysis

12:00 p.m. Break

12:30 p.m. Markus Leppert: The F Operator: A Proposal for a Generative Notation for Frequency Factors in Music

1:30 p.m. Group lunch

3:00 p.m. End of the workshop and farewell