M.A. Jonas Spieker
Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn » Bereich Prof. Dr. Rebecca Grotjahn
Research Associate
- E-Mail:
- jonas.spieker@uni-paderborn.de
- Office Address:
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Hornsche Str. 39
32756 Detmold - Room:
- HFM1 2.16
About Jonas Spieker
Jonas Spieker studied Recording Producer/"Tonmeister" at the Erich Thienhaus Institute Detmold and Musicology at the University of Paderborn. He has been a research and teaching assistant to Prof. Dr. Rebecca Grotjahn at the Department of Musicology in Detmold/Paderborn since 2020 and is writing his doctoral thesis on "Listening as Care. Ecofeminist Perspectives on Environmental Sound Art". Since July 2024 he is editor of the yearbook Music and Gender.
In addition to his academic work, Jonas Spieker works as a sound artist/sound dramaturge and is engaged as a climate activist.
Curriculum Vitae
Since 01.07.2024: Editor yearbook "Music and Gender"
Since 01.01.2021: Research and teaching assistant
Research and teaching assistant at the Musicology Department Detmold/Paderborn of the University of Paderborn
01.10.2020 - 31.12.2020: Research assistant
Research assistant at the musicology department Detmold/Paderborn of the University of Paderborn
01.10.2017 - 30.09.2020: Musicology degree
Musicology at the University of Paderborn
Master's thesis: "The Dispositive Opera and the Silent Order of Gender"
01.10.2012 - 30.09.2017: Degree Recording Producer/Tonmeister
Studied Recording Producer/Tonmeister at the Erich Thienhaus Institute Detmold.
22.11.2025: Presentation Hearing the loss. Environmental Sound Art as a Practice of Grief and Care
Presentation at the conference “Art - Religion - Environment” at the University of Padeborn
15.05.2025: Presentation On the relationship between class struggle and pop songs in Disarstar's Overdose (2024)
Presentaiton at the conference “Rap versus Schlager: Can you hear the difference?” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
05.07.2024: Paper "Beyond Authenticity: Rethinking Technology and the Field in Environmental Sound Art"
Paper presented at the international conference In the Field 2 at the CRiSAP Institute, University of the Arts London.
06.10.2023: Paper "Mourning Seals. On Ecological Sound Art and the Problem of Advocacy"
Paper presented at the symposium "Binär - Nonbinär. Sound, Gender, Posthumanism" at the annual conference of the Society for Music Research (Gesellschaft für Musikforschung) 2024 in Saarbrücken.
German title: "Klagende Robben. Über Ecological Sound Art und das Problem der Anwaltschaft"
16.09.2023: Paper "Just bury the city and be free? Musical aesthetic practice in times of climate crisis"
Paper presented at the conference "Music and Climate Change" at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen.
Publications
Latest Publications
Klagende Robben. Environmental Sound Art und das Problem der Anwaltschaft
J. Spieker, in: C. Bartsch, A. Schürmer, J. Spieker (Eds.), Non*binär! Sound und Gender im Posthumanismus, n.d.
Non*binäre Verflechtungen: Feministische Klangspaziergänge im Garten posthumanistischer Theoriebildung
J. Spieker, C. Bartsch, A. Schürmer, in: C. Bartsch, A. Schürmer, J. Spieker (Eds.), Non*binär! Sound und Gender im Posthumanismus, n.d.
Zur klanglichen Dimension des HABITAT. Hören als kritische Intervention im öffentlichen Raum
J. Spieker, J. Winkler, HABITAT Magazin (2024).
Das Dispositiv Oper und die stumme Ordnung des Geschlechts
J. Spieker, Das Dispositiv Oper und die stumme Ordnung des Geschlechts, n.d.
Werner Egk
J. Spieker, in: R. Grotjahn (Ed.), Kollaborateure – Involvierte – Profiteure. Musik in der NS-Zeit, 2019.
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Teaching
Current Courses
- Wovon sollen wir träumen? Musik in politischen Bewegungen und Kämpfen
Additional Activities
Courses in previous semesters:
Introduction to Musicology (2023/24)
Music and Animals (2023)
Introduction to Musicology (2022/23)
Sound Ecology: Environment, Sound and Music (2022)
Introduction to Musicology (2021/22)
Ecomusicology: Music, Nature, Climate (2021)
Teaching projects:
Blog Sounding Environments with soundscape compositions by students, created as part of the seminar Sound Ecology (2022)
Scientific Engagement
06.10.2023 | Symposium "Binary - Nonbinary. Gender, Sound, Posthumanism"
Organisation of the symposium "Binary – Nonbinary. Gender, Sound, Posthumanism" at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 2024 in Saarbrücken, together with Junior Professor Anna Schürmer and Prof. Dr. Cornelia Bartsch.
Since 09/2024 | Deputy member of the scientific advisory board of the yearbook "Music and Gender"