What do we choose to keep? How and why?
Tuning In - Acoustique de l’émotion explores the sound archives and collections of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, creating a dialogue between emotions and archives, and more broadly questioning the relation between sound, voice, archives and humanitarian action.
For this first round table, the museum is proud to welcome three members of the exhibition's scientific committee: Sabine Haberler Kreis, Didier Grandjean and Alain Dufaux. Moderated by exhibition curator Elisa Rusca, this meeting will offer an understanding of the different roles played by these experts and the choices made for the exhibition, as well as a look at the humanitarian sound archive.
You can chat with the speakers at the conference, or over a drink offered by the HINIVUU café!
Practical information:
- CHF 10
- Access to the exhibition between 5pm and 6pm, and after the conference
- In French
Sabine Haberler Kreis has worked for the ICRC for more than 30 years, in various positions at headquarters and in the field in information management, documentation and archives. She joined the audiovisual archives team in 2010, initially working exclusively on the photo collection and later on the sound collection, which she took over in 2018.
Didier Grandjean is an ordinary professor in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences and Director of the CISA at the University of Geneva. He completed his thesis in 2005 under the supervision of Klaus Scherer on the dynamics of cognitive evaluation processes in emotion using electroencephalographic methods. He has published more than 150 articles in international scientific journals in psychology and neuroscience on emotional processes linked to the perception and production of emotional prosody, evaluation processes, the emergence of feelings, music and emotion, olfaction and emotion, and the perception and production of emotional facial expression.
Alain Dufaux’s field of expertise is in signal processing for speech, audio and images, with a dual profile in both academic and industrial worlds. Alain studied electrical engineering at EPFL before moving to University of Neuchâtel, where his research mainly focused on speech / audio compression and recognition. He obtained a Ph.D in 2001, in the field of automated impulsive sound recognition. After spending 6 years as a low-power Digital Signal Processing specialist in the hearing aid industry, he came back at EPFL in 2007, first taking care of research in a Computer Vision group, experiencing lectures and co-directions of PhD students. He joined the Vice Presidency for Innovation in 2011 and has been since 2014 as the Operations and Development director of the “EPFL Cultural Heritage & Innovation Center”, which is dedicated to the digitzation, preservation, and enrichment of sound, audiovisual and pictures archives.
