The Project “Sharing Knowledge” – Indigenous Sound Ontologies at the Ethnological Museum Berlin and in Their Source Community

Dr. Matthias Lewy
Matthias Lewy is a comparative musicologist, cultural and social anthropologist (Free University of Berlin) and cultural and media manager (Academy of Music «Hanns Eisler» Berlin). His PhD focused on music rituals of indigenous groups in the border region between Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. In a subsequent post-doctoral research project at the University of Brasilia (UnB), he intensified his research on indigenous sound ontologies in the Guyanas and further developed his theory on auditory anthropology.
Other areas of research are ecomusicology and sound ecology, sound ontologies in indigenous cultures, the popular music of Latin America and the Caribbean, music and politics, the music industry (world music scene) and the music archive. He also deals with ethno-historical sources of music in ancient Mexico.
In the field of applied ethnomusicology he worked as a sound curator for exhibitions in ethnographic museums in the Humboldt Lab Berlin (Dahlem) and at the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève. He is currently entrusted with an interactive exhibition concept for the Humboldt Forum Berlin.
He was a lecturer in musicology / ethnomusicology at the University of Brasilia, at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In the field of cultural and social anthropology, he taught at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin and at the universities of Marburg and Bonn. At the Viadrina University Frankfurt (Oder) he worked as a lecturer on cultural and media management.
Affiliations: Senior researcher at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Matthias Lewy是一位比較音樂學家，文化和社會人類學家（柏林自由大學）以及文化和媒體管理者（柏林“漢斯·埃斯勒”音樂學院）。他的博士學位主要研究委內瑞拉，巴西和圭亞那之間邊界地區的原住民群體的音樂儀式。在隨後的巴西利亞大學（UnB）博士後研究項目中，他加強了對圭亞那原住民聲音本體論的研究，並進一步發展了他的聽覺人類學理論。
其他研究領域是生態音樂學和聲音生態學，原住民文化中的聲音本體論，拉丁美洲和加勒比地區的流行音樂，音樂和政治，音樂產業（世界音樂範疇）和音樂檔案。他還研究古代墨西哥的民族歷史音樂資源。
在應用民族音樂學領域，他曾擔任柏林洪堡實驗室（達勒姆）和日內瓦民族志博物館各式展覽的聲音策展人。目前，他受委託為柏林洪堡論壇提供互動展覽概念。
他曾在巴西利亞大學，馬丁·路德大學Halle-Wittenberg和柏林的洪堡大學擔任音樂學/民族音樂學講師。在文化和社會人類學領域，他在柏林自由大學拉丁美洲研究所以及馬爾堡大學和波恩大學任教。在法蘭克福Viadrina大學（奧德），他擔任文化和媒體管理講師。
自2019年以來，他是琉森應用科技大學的高級研究員。
所屬機構：琉森應用科技大學的高級研究員。