Jonas Spieker
Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn > Bereich Prof. Dr. Rebecca Grotjahn
Research Associate
- Brief Profile
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.
- 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)
Education and Academic Career |
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| 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. |
Artistc Scientific Research |
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| 01.09.2022 - 04.11.2023 |
Sound Artist HABITAT Sound dramaturgy for the sound-botanical project HABITAT of the Bureau Baubotanik in Stuttgart. |
Scientific Engagement |
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Organisation of Scientific Events |
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| 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. |
Editorial Boards and Editorship |
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| Since 09/2024 |
Deputy member of the scientific advisory board of the yearbook "Music and Gender" |
| 22.11.2025 |
Listening to Loss. Environmental Sound Art as a Practice of Grief Presentation at the conference “Art - Religion - Environment” at the University of Padeborn |
| 13.11.2025 |
Learning to hear the climate crisis: Environmental Sound Art as Sustainability Practice Lecture as part of the lecture series “UPB for Future” in the winter semester 2025/2026 |
| 02.09.2025 - 05.09.2025 |
Summer Academy "Memories of Landscape. On Traces of Violence in Nature" European Summer Academy for Young Professionals (German Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Genshagen Foundation) |
| 03.09.2025 |
Temporal Friction: Sonic Interventions in Landscapes of Violence Presentation at the European Summer Academy for Young Professionals "Memories of Landscape. On Traces of Violence in Nature" (German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Genshagen Foundation) |
| Since 09/2024 |
Deputy member of the scientific advisory board of the yearbook "Music and Gender" |
| 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 |
| 15.05.2025 |
On the Relationship Between Class Struggle and Schlager in Disarstar's Overdose (2024) Paper presented at the conference “Rap versus Schlager: Can you hear the difference?” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna |
| 05.07.2024 |
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. |
| 01.09.2022 - 04.11.2023 |
Sound Artist HABITAT Sound dramaturgy for the sound-botanical project HABITAT of the Bureau Baubotanik in Stuttgart. |
| 06.10.2023 |
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 Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 2024 in Saarbrücken. German title: "Klagende Robben. Über Ecological Sound Art und das Problem der Anwaltschaft" |
| 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. |
| 16.09.2023 |
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. |
| 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. |