Office Address:
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.

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.

Teaching


Current Courses

  • Einführung in die Musikwissenschaft
  • Einführung in die Musikwissenschaft

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.


Artistc Scientific Research

01.09.2022: Sound Artist HABITAT