Lars-Christian Koch is Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin, and Director for the Collections of the National Museums in Berlin at the Humboldt Forum.

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He is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne and Honorary Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Berlin University of the Arts, and led the research project »Indexing and Digitisation of the Sound Recordings of the Prussian Phonographic Commission 1915-1918.« His research revolves around instrumentology with a special focus on instrument making, Buddhist music, popular music and urban culture, and historical sound recordings.