The ÆSR Lab is divided into three laboratories. The Mobile Lab for mobile sound field research, the Sound Projection Lab for experimental sound projection and the Field Recording & Digitization/Restoration Lab for field recordings, restoration of historical sound carriers and their digitisation. The labs are available to scientists, artists, students and the interested public for research purposes.

ÆSR Lab offers a broad spectrum of knowledge transfer, from practical applications to teaching in the form of courses, workshops and lectures. ÆSR Lab promotes interdisciplinary work and exchange between interested individuals and institutions.

In order to make cooperative use and access to the laboratory and equipment as easy to access as possible, the project is developing a representative and publicly accessible lending system that maps all available research instruments.

Karl Salzmann is the project lead of the ÆSR Lab and is responsible for the implementation of the Mobile Lab, which is being developed at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. At the Angewandte, he is the coordinator of the Soundart Research Plattform and teacher und Senior Scientist at Zentrum Fokus Forschung.

Thomas Grill works as a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, as a media artist, technologist and sound researcher. His artistic work encompasses the most diverse areas of audible and cross-media art, with a focus on loudspeaker-based music, electroacoustic improvisation, as well as installations and interventions. At MDW, he is the director of the University course of electroacoustic und experimental Music (ELAK). In 2018-2022 he led the multi-year artistic research project "Rotting Sounds".

Studied musicology, ethnology and theatre, film and television studies at the University of Cologne and the University of Vienna. Doctorate in ethnomusicology at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Further academic positions at the Foundation University Hildesheim, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main and the University of Vienna in research and teaching, project coordination and science/archive management. Head of the Phonogrammarchiv since March 2019.

Jasemin Khaleli is an ethnomusicologist and artist, exploring issues of systemic violence, critical knowledge production and sensory anthropology. With her master's thesis on queer techno-spaces in Lisbon, she was a research fellow of the “Sounds of Tourism” project at the Nova University of Lisbon, followed by a research position within the “Klingender Gemeindebau” project at the Music and Minorities Research Center at mdw. She is currently enrolled in the Critical Studies program at the Academy of Fine Arts and works as a research associate at the phonogram archive within the collaborative project ÆSR Lab - Applied/Experimental Sound Research Laboratory.

Jonas Hammerer is a sound artist and composer whose work spans live performances, sound installations, and compositions. He studied electroacoustic and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and holds a degree in Landscape Architecture. He is presently furthering his studies at the Tangible Music Lab within the Institute of Media Studies at the University of Art and Design in Linz. Since 2023, he has been affiliated with the ÆSR Lab - Applied/Experimental Sound Research Laboratory as a student research associate.

Julian Rubisch, born in Vienna in 1981, is a freelance sound artist, interaction designer, and performance artist. From 2007 to 2014, he worked as a research associate at the Institute for Creative Media Technologies at FH St. Pölten. His main areas of interest include Sound & Music Computing, Sonic Interaction Design, Computer Music, and (interactive) Sound Art.

Education: Completed the Certificate Program in Computer Music & Electronic Media at MDW Vienna (2012-2015), some of his mentors are Marko Ciciliani, Katharina Klement, Volkmar Klien and Wolfgang Musil. St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Master in Telecommunications and Media Technology (2004-2009).

He has presented performances and installations at prestigious venues such as ZKM Karlsruhe, Alte Schmiede Vienna, ORF Ö1 Kunstradio, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Klangturm St. Pölten, ICMC, and AES Conference.

Julian Rubisch explores boundaries and interfaces of perception, including the analysis-resynthesis of speech signals and Data Moshing. His artworks are often interactive, inviting the audience to actively participate in the creative process.