| Instrumental playing
Through the central significance of vocal function for the entire body, research in ergonomics has received important inspirations and insights relating to instrumental playing. Questions around the physiology of hearing, organization of the human movement apparatus, and neurological equilibrium of the specific nervous systems are a permanent part of professional everyday life at our Institute and give rise to lively discussions with performing musicians in shared chamber music projects and seminar events. Past and current measurement series in collaboration with the Institute of Ergonomics (Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft) at the University of Darmstadt make valuable contributions to the finding of an identity, in the sense of a new model of what a musician is.