Christoph Reuter


Christoph Reuter is a German University professor for systematic musicology at the University of Vienna.

life

Born in Duisburg, Reuter studied musicology at the University of Cologne, received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1996 and his habilitation in 2002. He has held guest professorships or teaching positions at several universities, and has also been a managing partner of a Cologne-based internet agency since 2000. Since 2008, Reuter has been university professor for systematic musicology at the University of Vienna.

Scientific activity

His research interests include musical acoustics, music physiology and psychological aspects of music perception as well as music-related internet/software projects. Examples of his manifold studies in the field of systematic musicology are investigations on sound colour perception, on the Variophon, on music automatons, on perception of unpleasant noises and on musical dice games..

Memberships

Reuter is a board member of the ' and in 2006-2008 was the editor of the yearbook of the Society for Music Psychology. He is a member of the board and head of the working group of the "Wissenschaft" in the '. He is also a member of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, the Consulting Boards of Musicae Scientiae, the Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft, the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Akustik, the Internationalen Arbeitskreis für systematische Musikwissenschaft as well as the Gesellschaft für selbstspielende Musikinstrumente

Publications