Sabine Sanio

She has been teaching in the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts master’s program at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2009 and was responsible for the theory track until 2026. From 2019 to 2022, she led the D-A-CH research project “Hearing the Other – on the Aesthetics of the Real in Experimental Music and Sound Art,” and since 2015 she has been a member of the curatorial team for the Heroines of Sound festival. Her numerous publications address aesthetics, media history, and media aesthetics, as well as contemporary and experimental music, sound art, and the relationships between the arts. Her published books include: Alternatives to the Aesthetics of the Work: Cage and Heißenbüttel (Saarbrücken, 1999); 1968 and the Avant-Garde (edition pp, Sinzig 2008); as editor: Sound as a Model of Time: Thinking of Time as Sound. Music, Sound Art, and French Philosophy of Time (UdK Berlin 2014); as co-editor: Heroines of Sound. Feminism and Gender in Electronic Music (Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2019, with Bettina Wackernagel). Most recently published: “A Look Behind the Curtain? On the Relationship Between Music and Media Aesthetics,” in: Sven Spieker; Mario Asef (eds.), Acusmatics as a Laboratory. Culture – Art – Media, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2023; and: “Kafka’s Heroine? On Josefine, the Singer.” In: Janina Klassen (ed.): From the Stage to Life. Musical Heroines and Pioneers. Georg Olms Verlag, Baden-Baden 2024, pp. 123–146.