Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. Rehding is a music theorist and musicologist with a focus on intellectual history and media theory, known for innovative interdisciplinary work. His publications explore music in a wide range of contexts from Ancient Greek music to the Eurovision Song Contest—and even in outer space. His research has contributed to Riemannian theory, the history of music theory, sound studies, and media archaeology, reaching into the digital humanities and ecomusicology. Biography A native of Hamburg, Germany, Rehding was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge University. He held research fellowships at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the Penn Humanities Forum (now Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania) and the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University before joining the Music Department at Harvard University in 2003, initially as Assistant Professor. He was promoted to a full professorship only two years later, the first successful tenure case in the Music Department in over forty years. In 2009 he was named Fanny Peabody Professor of Music. Rehding served as department chair between 2011 and 2014. At Harvard, Rehding is an Affiliate of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and an Associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the Center for the Environment. From 2006 to 2011 Rehding served as co-editor of Acta Musicologica (the journal of the International Musicological Society), and became Editor-in-chief of the Oxford Handbook Online series in Music in 2011. His has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)., the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was a visiting scholar at the Free University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, at the Newhouse Center at Wellesley College, and was Rieman and Baketel Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. He was the inaugural recipient of the Jerome Roche award of the Royal Musical Association, and received the Dent Medal awarded jointly by the Royal Musical Association and the International Musicological Society in 2014. Rehding has been active in promoting the field of Sound studies. In 2013 Rehding founded the Sound Lab at Harvard. In 2013/14 he organized the Sawyer Seminars in the Comparative Study of Culture on the topic of “Hearing Modernity.” The