Claudia Stirnat, M.A. - Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

• 2022–2024
  Research Assistant at State Institute for Music Research
• 2019–2021
  PhD scholarship of Thuringian State Graduate Support
• 2018–2022
  Member-at-Large in the SysMus Executive Committee
• Since 2018
  PhD student at TU Ilmenau, research group Electronic Media Technology Group, in cooperation with TU Berlin since 2021
• 2017
  Master of Arts in Systematic Musicology at University of Hamburg
• 2012–2013
  Erasmus exchange at University of Jyväskylä, Finland, international Master’s program “Music, Mind, and Technology”
• 2012
  Bachelor of Arts in Systematic Musicology and Media and Communication Science at University of Hamburg

Conference contributions

• Stirnat, Claudia (2023). „Spotify-Nutzer:innen und ihre Hörgewohnheiten: Eine explorative Online-Studie zum Streamingverhalten“ [https://musikpsychologie.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2023_reader.pdf ]. Conference proceedings of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), 08.-10. September 2023, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, 29.
• Stirnat, Claudia (2023). “An interactive spatial sound installation using binaural synthesis” in:  Michalko, A., Onderdijk, K. E., & Van Kerrebroeck, B. (Hrsg.) (2023). Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus22).More information about the demo
• Stirnat, C. / Göring, S. (2021). “Audiovisual Perception of Spaciousness of Music in an Online Study“. Talk presented auf Klingtgut! 2020/21 – International Symposium on Sound, HAW Hamburg. (Proceeding in progress).
• Stirnat, C. (2020). “Inaudible Frequencies in the Context of Scientific Studies with Music“. Poster presented at the Thirteenth International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus20). 15.-18. September 2020, virtual conference, University of York, UK. (Journal manuscript in progress).
• Stirnat, C. (2020). “Concept for the Investigation of Perceived Spaciousness in Music and Film“. In: Proceedings of DAGA, Rostock. 379-381.
• Brandenburg, K./ Fiedler, B./ Fischer, G./ Klein, F./ Neidhardt, A./ Schneiderwind, C./ Sloma, U./ Stirnat, C. / Werner, S. (2019). “Perceptual aspects in spatial audio processing”. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, 9.-13. September, Aachen. 3354-3360.
• Stirnat, C. / Ziemer, T. (2019). “Spaciousness in Music: The Tonmeister’s Intention and the Listener’s Perception“. In: Philipp Kessling and Thomas Görne (Eds.). KLG 2017. Klingt gut! 2017 –International Symposium on Sound, Vol. 1, 42-51.
• Stirnat, C. / Ziemer,T. (2017). “Räumlichkeit in Musik: Empfehlung in der Literatur, Umsetzung in der Praxis und Wahrnehmung beim Hörer“. Conference proceedings of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), 15.-17. September 2017, University of Hamburg. 137.
• Stirnat, C. (2017). “Perceived Spaciousness in Music using different Reproduction Techniques: Analysis of Musical Cues”. Poster presented at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), 31.Juli-4.August 2017, Ghent, Belgium.
• Stirnat, C. (2016). “Wahrgenommene Räumlichkeit in Musik mitverschiedenen Reproduktionstechniken“. Conference proceedings of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), 09.-11. September 2016, University of Vienna, 137.
• Stirnat, C. (2016). “How Important is the Reproduction Technique for the Perception of Spaciousness in Music?”. In: The 9th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus16), Jyväskylän yliopisto, June 8-10th 2016: programme, abstracts & proceedings. Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä & Finnish Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research. 1-6.
• Stirnat, C. (2015). “Räumliche Wahrnehmung der Musikstile Elektro, Ethno, Jazz, Klassik und Rock.“ Conference proceedings of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), 11.-13. September 2015, University of Oldenburg. 109-110.
• Stirnat, C. (2015). “Perceived Spaciousness in Music Presented through Headphones, Loudspeakers and Wave Field Synthesis.” Poster presented at the International Conference on Multimodal Experience of Music (ICMEM). 23.-25. March 2015, University of Sheffield, UK.
• Stirnat, C. (2014). “Perceived spaciousness in music presented through headphones, loudspeakers and wave field synthesis.” Poster presented at the Seventh International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus14). 18.-20. September 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Conference Reports

• Stirnat, C. / Faber, S. (2022). “SysMus21 - 14th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology, 3rd - 5th November 2021, Center for Music in the Brain & Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie, Band 30.
• Thiesen, F. C./ Hammerschmidt, D./ Stirnat, C., / Lin, H. (2019). “Expressive Interaction with Music: 25 years European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music 2017, Ghent, Belgium (31.07.-04.08.17). Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie, Band 28, Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 305-308. Print-ISBN 978-3-8309-3878-1

Theses

• Stirnat, C. (2016). “Perception of Spaciousness using Wave Field Synthesis, Headphones and Loudspeakers”. Master’s Thesis, University of Hamburg.
• Stirnat, C. (2012). “Percepted Spaciousness of different Musical Genres”. Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Hamburg

• Perception of Spaciousness in Music
• Audio visual Presentations for different reproduction technologies
• Music and multimodal Perception
• Psychoacoustics
• Room acoustics
• Sound quality, music and health/ sleep
• Music streaming in times of climate change