Sabine Sanio

Prof. Dr. habil. Sabine Sanio is head of the theoretical focus of the master's program »Sound Studies and Sonic Arts« at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she has been teaching since 2009. Since 2019 she leads the DFG research project »Hearing the Other. On the Aesthetics of the Real in Experimental Music and Sound Art«. She studied German language and literature as well as philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Free University of Berlin. She received her doctorate in German language and literature and habilitated in musicology. 

She has numerous publications on current aesthetics, media aesthetics and history, sound art, new and experimental music, and the relationship between the arts. Her previous book publications include »Alternatives to Work Aesthetics: John Cage and Helmut Heissenbüttel« (Saarbrücken, Pfau, 1999) and »1968 and the Avantgarde« (Sinzig, Studiopunkt, 2008). In addition, she has published a volume entitled »Sound as a Time Model: Thinking Time as Sound. Music, Sound Art and French Philosophies of Time« (Berlin, University of the Arts, 2014). With Bettina Wackernagel she published »Heroines of Sound. Feminism and Gender in Electronic Music« (Hofheim, Wolke, 2019) and with Christian Scheib »Das Rauschen« (Hofheim, Wolke, 1995). Most recently, she published »Musik als Raumkunst. Zur Ästhetik von Alvin Lucier« (in: Alvin Lucier, Munich, edition text+kritik, 2018, Series: Musik-Konzepte 180/181).