Sound – Transmission – Aesthetics
Event date: 06/25/2026
Location: Meeting point at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum, 4.30 p.m. In German
Guided tour of the SIM’s acoustic studios to mark the 100th anniversary of Hans-Peter Reinecke’s birth
As a musicologist, psychologist and experimental physicist, Prof. Dr Hans-Peter Reinecke (1926–2003) devoted his work to, amongst other things, room and building acoustics, the transmission of music through the media, and the perception of music.
The guided tour led by Hans-Joachim Maempel takes place in Department III of the State Institute for Music Research, which Reinecke founded in 1965. In 1967, he was appointed director of the entire institute.
Visitors can view the acoustic and studio rooms that Reinecke designed and for whose construction he was responsible as a planning engineer until their completion in 1984. Reinecke’s fundamental question regarding how the perception of music changes through its acoustic and electroacoustic transmission became increasingly relevant as media developed, became ever more nuanced, and remains highly topical today.
PD Dr Hans-Joachim Maempel has headed Department III: Acoustics and Music Technology, Studio Technology and IT at the State Institute for Music Research since 2012.
Meeting point at the Museum of Musical Instruments
Cost: €10 / concessions €5 (museum admission)
As we have to limit the number of participants, please register by telephone at the museum ticket office on +49 (0)30 25481-178.
Following the guided tour, there will be an opportunity to attend the free concert ‘Curiosity as a Compass: An Interdisciplinary Life’s Work’ in honour of Reinecke at 6 pm in St. Matthäus Church, Kulturforum Berlin, Matthäikirchplatz.
The photo shows Hans-Peter Reinecke in his office at Stauffenbergstraße 14, the location of Department III of the SIM from 1965 until the move to the Institute’s new building at the Kulturforum in 1984. Photo: Jürgen Liepe, 1984, Source: SIMPK image archive