M.A. Jonas Spieker

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M.A. Jonas Spieker

Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn > Bereich Prof. Dr. Rebecca Grotjahn

Research Associate

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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)

M.A. Jonas Spieker
Education and Academic Career
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
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
Organisation of Scientific Events
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 01.07.2024

Editor yearbook "Music and Gender"

Education and Academic Career
Since 01.01.2021

Research and teaching assistant

Research and teaching assistant at the Musicology Department Detmold/Paderborn of the University of Paderborn

Education and Academic Career
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.

Scientific Presentations
01.09.2022 - 04.11.2023

Sound Artist HABITAT

Sound dramaturgy for the sound-botanical project HABITAT of the Bureau Baubotanik in Stuttgart.

Artistc Scientific Research
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"

Scientific Presentations
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.

Organisation of Scientific Events
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.

Scientific Presentations
01.10.2020 - 31.12.2020

Research assistant

Research assistant at the musicology department Detmold/Paderborn of the University of Paderborn

Education and Academic Career
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"

Education and Academic Career
01.10.2012 - 30.09.2017

Degree Recording Producer/Tonmeister

Studied Recording Producer/Tonmeister at the Erich Thienhaus Institute Detmold.

Education and Academic Career