CfP: Diskografentag: International Conference on Recorded Sound (14.-15.09.2025, Ehrenfriedendorf) Deadline: 15.07.2025

CfP: Diskografentag: International Conference on Recorded Sound, Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger (GHT), 14.-15.September 2025, Ehrenfriedendorf, Germany

Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2025

The „Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger (GHT)“ is a non-profit association that was founded in Vienna in November 2002 and is open to members from all over the world. The aim of the association is to preserve sound documents from the early era of sound recording (reels, shellac and vinyl records), and to document, archive and make accessible their data, content and findings synergistically under scientific standards. GHT wants to raise general awareness of this topic in society, and initiate and promote corresponding activities.

Diskografentag 2025 is a part of the events organised by European Capital of Culture Chemnitz under the motto: „Der fixierte Klang/The Fixed Sound".

The programme committee welcomes proposals for individual papers (20 minutes, plus 10-minutes for questions), and longer presentations (30 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions). Expert musicologists, academics, musicians, collectors, enthusiasts, as well as early career researchers, and PhD students are warmly invited to share their research on all topics considering recorded sound.

Please submit a 250-word abstract to office[at]phonomuseum[dot]at