Christoph Metzger

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Christoph Metzger (* 1962 in Munich ) is a German music and art scholar whose research focuses on rooms designed according to acoustic aspects. His theoretical and curatorial contributions are based in the field of sound art . It combines questions of a multisensory perception of humans with the offers of architecture ("neuro-architecture").

From 1994 to 2019, Metzger was an academic lecturer in the fields of musicology, architectural theory and art history at the Technical University of Berlin, the BTU Cottbus, the University of Applied Sciences in Biberach an der Riss and most recently professor for "Art studies with a focus on the history and theory of sound art" at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig .

His interventionist architecture project, Klangkunstforum Potsdamer Platz in Berlin , won the 2001 AICA Award from the International Association of Art Critics and the CEREC Award from Financial Times Europa.

As a founding member and board member of Open Mainded Projektentwicklung AG in Frankfurt am Main (2013), Metzger is the CMO responsible for branding and marketing for age-appropriate living under neuroscientific aspects.

Publications (selection)

  • Theory of Abstraction , Passages, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-7092-0430-6
  • Physical praxeology vs. Iconic Turn (Ed. With Thomas Becker) with contributions by Hartmut Böhme, Stephan Günzel, Bernhard Waldenfels et al., Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn, 2019, ISBN 9783770564750
  • Neuroarchitecture , Jovis, Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86859-468-3
  • Vol.3. Abstract Music. sound, art, media & architecture , (Ed. with Ulrich Eller), contributions by E. Altenmüller, M. Glasmeier, H. dela Motte-Haber, K. Lüdeking, A. Tietenberg et al., Kehrer, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86828-774-5
  • Building for dementia , Jovis, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86859-389-1
  • Architecture and resonance , Jovis, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86859-270-2
  • John Cage , Pfau, Saarbrücken, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89727-421-1
  • Conceptualisms in Music, Art and Film, (Ed.) Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2003, ISBN 3-89727-235-0 .
  • Music and architecture. (Ed. On behalf of the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, IMD) with contributions by Wolfgang Rihm , Bernhard Leitner , Peter Zumthor and others, Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken 2003, ISBN 3-89727-227-X
  • Issues in Mahler reception: historicisms and misreadings after 1960 , Ed. Jeremy Barham, The Cambridge Companion to Mahler , Cambridge University Press, 2003/2007, ISBN 978-0-521-54033-9 ., P. 203-217.
  • Mahler reception. Perspectives on Gustav Mahler's reception. Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2000, ISBN 3-7959-0769-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts
personal data
SURNAME Butcher, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music and art scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich