2006-2008
Ancient Musical Instruments of the Americas. Ethnological Museum Berlin, Department of Ethnomusicology. In cooperation with Friedemann Schmidt, terraton.
2001
Xicalcoliuhqui. Audiovisual installation in the Ethnological Museum Berlin, Mesoamerica Hall.
A project by transparent.
June 22, 2010
La música entre los Aztecas. Museo Chinelo, Yautepec (Morelos), Mexico.
March 5, 2010
La música precolombina: Una introducción (taller - conferencia - concierto). Universidad de Valladolid, Departamento de Música, Spain.
September 28, 2009
Music in Mesoamerica. University of Vermont, Burlington, USA.
September 23, 2009
Music Iconography and Iconological Interpretation in Music Archaeology: A Keynote. 3rd Conference of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology, City University of New York, Research Center for Music Iconography, New York, USA.
July 4, 2009
Music Archaeological Research on pre-Hispanic Music Cultures during the Belle Époque (c. 1880 – 1914).
Study Day ‘Historiographical Topics in Music Archaeology and Ethnomusicology’, Institute of Musical Research, University of London, School of Advanced Study, London.
June 19, 2009
Research Questions in the Acoustics and Music of Prehistory: A Synthesis. 1st Symposium of the AMBP network, held at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. Download Keynote. Videos of the lecture are posted here.
February 1, 2009
Klang der Kulturen - Die vorspanischen Musikinstrumente der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim. 12. Mesoamerikanisten -Tagung, IAI, Universität Bonn, Germany.
September 9-13, 2008
The Sound of the Earth: Aztec Shell-Rattles. Joint paper with Adrián Velázquez Castro. 6. Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany.
March 27, 2008
Investigaciones en la Arqueomusicología Prehispánica: Consideraciones teorico-metodológicas y el proyecto
de investigación “La Música de Teotihuacán”. Escuela Nacional de Música, Mexico City.
March 4, 2008
La música en el Templo Mayor: Resultados del proyecto de investigación “La Arqueomusicología de las ofrendas del Recinto Sagrado de Tenochtitlán”. Seminario de Estudios del Templo Mayor, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City.
January 26, 2008
Musikarchäologie Mesoamerikas: Aktuelle Fragestellungen und die Grenzen der Erforschung vergangener
Musiktraditionen. 11. Mesoamerikanisten-Tagung, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Germany.
June 9, 2007
Musikarchäologische Forschungen in Mexiko.Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, Germany.
February 16, 2007
¿Dos lados de la misma moneda? Consideraciones teorico-metodológicas de la arqueomusicología prehispánica y la perspectiva meso- y sudamericana. International Symposium “Unveiling Society’s Secrets: An In-Depth Analysis of the Culture of the Americas”, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
February 13, 2007
Investigaciones arqueomusicológicas en Teotihuacan, México. Escuela Nacional de Folklore, Lima, Peru.
January 26, 2007
Musikarchäologische Forschungen in Teotihuacan, Mexiko. X. Mesoamerikanisten-Tagung, Grassi-Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig.
Oktober 27, 2005
Musikarchäologie der Weihesetzungen des Tempelbezirks von Tenochtitlan: Theorie, Methodik, Resultate. Vortrag zur Disputation, LAI, FU-Berlin.
February 4-6, 2005
Multiplanare Rekonstruktionen aztekischer Totenkopfpfeifen des Ethnologischen Museums, Berlin. VIII. Mesoamerikanisten-Tagung, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin.
September 19-26, 2004
Sound Imitation and Sound Association in Prehispanic Musical Instruments. 4. Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology, Landesmusikakademie Sachsen-Anhalt, Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein.
June 12, 2004
Vorspanische Musikinstrumente: Wie hat die Musik der Azteken, Mayas und Inkas geklungen? Mit Friedemann Schmidt zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften im LAI, FU-Berlin.
February 1, 2004
Musik im Tempelkult der Azteken. VII. Mesoamerikanisten-Tagung, Universität Hamburg.
August 6, 2003
Zur Tempelmusik der Azteken. Begleitprogramm der Ausstellung „Azteken“ im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
April 25-27, 2003
Aztec Ritual Music: Music Archaeological research of the Offerings of the Aztec Templo Mayor. First meeting of the Study Group on Music Archaeology of the International Council for Traditional Music ICTM, Los Angeles, USA.
February 26, 2003
El canto de Tlaloc: La Arqueomusicología de la Ofrenda 89 del Templo Mayor. Auditorio Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Museo del Templo Mayor, México, D.F.
December 2-6, 2002
The Songs of Tlaloc: Interference of Aztec Ceramic Duct Flutes. First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics - 144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America ASA, Cancún, México.
June 9-16, 2002
Shell Trumpets in Mesoamerica. 3rd Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology, Landesmusikakademie Sachsen-Anhalt, Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein.
April 29, 2002
La Arqueomusicología de las ofrendas del Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan. Seminario del Museo del Templo Mayor, México, D.F.
February 19, 2001
Aspekte der aztekischen Musikkultur. Vortrag zur Verleihung des Rudolf-Virchow-Förderpreises 2001, Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie, FU Berlin.
September 17-23, 2000
On the Symbolic Organization of Sound in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica. 2nd Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology, Landesmusikakademie Sachsen-Anhalt, Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein.
2010-
Musical Instruments and Sound Objects of Xochicalco, Mexico. In collaboration with Silvia Garza Tarazona and Norberto González Crespo, Proyecto Especial Xochicalco.
2009-
Aztec Musical Instruments of Calixtlahuaca, Cuexcomate, Capilco, and Yautepec. In collaboration with Michael Smith, Arizona State University. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
2008-
Acoustics of northeast Honduran ocarinas of the Cocal period (AD 1000-1530), Moyne-Feachem collection, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. In collaboration with Paul Healy, Carrie Dennett, and Mary Hill Harris. With the assistance of Christoph Plewe.
2006-
Music Archaeology of Teotihuacan, Mexico (150 BC - 600/750 AD). Sound artefacts of Teotihuacan will be analyzed in musicarchaeological terms (find contexts and distribution, organology, iconography, acoustics). Supported by the Zona de Monumentos Arqueológicos de Teotihuacán (ZMAT) and the Teotihuacan Research Laboratory, Arizona State University. With the assistance of Doro Arndt.
2004-
Musical Instruments of Preclassic Mesoamerica: On the Organological Genesis in Prehispanic Societies. In cooperation with Patricia Ochoa, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico.
2004
3D-Computer Tomography of Prehispanic Sound Artifacts. Supported by the Ethnological Museum Berlin and the St. Gertrauden Hospital, Berlin.
2003-2008
Experimental replication and acoustics of Oliva shell-rattles from the Aztec Templo Mayor. A joint project with Adrián Velázquez Castro, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City.
2001-
Music Archaeology of the Offerings of the Aztec Templo Mayor (Late Postclassic Mesoamerica, 1325-1521 AD). Sponsered by NaFöG and DAAD, supported by the Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City.
1999-2006
Study of prehispanic sound artefacts preserved in the Ethnological Museum Berlin. Supported by the Ethnological Museum Berlin.
1998
Fieldwork on the musical tradition of the Concheros, Mexico-City. Recordings for the Phonogram-Archive, Ethnological Museum Berlin. Supported by the Berlin Phonogram-Archive.