Tuning the Ear

The research project Tuning the Ear proposes a new attention towards the term hearing by exploring technologies which historically have been used to diagnose, normalize and even optimize the ear. By attending to both the discursive and historical frames and the operative means of selected audiological instruments, amongst others audiometers (hearing tests machines), hearing horns and sound therapy instruments, it exposes how technology tunes the ear, that is how technology lets us hear and how technology frames conceptions of hearing.