Matthias Haenisch – Musicologist Researcher Lecturer Curator

»How Popular Musicians Learn in the Postdigital Age« – An Actor Network-Study on the Sociomateriality of Band’s Songwriting in Informal Contexts

Following Actor Network Theory and thus investigating songwriting as a sociomaterial process we present, exemplify, and discuss the results of the exploration of informal practices.…

Conference Talk: Music in the Disruptive Era: The Digital, the Internet and Beyond

At the international conference ›Music in the Disruptive Era: The Digital, the Internet and Beyond‹ the research group of LINKED will give a lecture on…

Multi-sited Ethnographic Research Project: Musical Practices in Postdigital Communities [2017-2020]

The research project ›LINKED – Musical Learning in Postdigital Communities‹ (University of Erfurt/promoted by Federal Ministry of Education and Research; term: 2017-2020) investigates musical practices…

Research & Development Project: Popular Music Learning in the Postdigital Age [2018-2021]

What does contemporary pop music education look like? What are the special possibilities and demands of learning in popular music? What role do current music…

Workshop: Digital Musicking with Apps

As a result of my own musical practice and my teaching and research activities in the field of mobile music making, I have started giving…

Research Project: Aesthetic Experience in Mobile Music Practices [2017-2020]

The research project ›LEA – learning processes and aesthetic experiences in app music practice‹ (University of Cologne/promoted by Federal Ministry of Education and Research) is a…

Festival & Symposium LABOR SONOR : CHOREOGRAPHING SOUND

Composers choreograph sounds. Dancers interpret compositions. LABOR SONOR : CHOREOGRAPHING SOUND explores translation processes between sound and movement, music and body. Contemporary forms of visible…

CTM Festival 2018: Discourse Program on Digital Technology

Under the conditions of the growing technosphere the impact of what Marshall McLuhan calls the technological unconscious has grown. The myths, hopes and anxieties of technology-driven…

CTM Festival 2018: Discourse Program on Musical Resistance

Past research has shown that popular music can support subversive politics. There is musical potential for social change. Following this year’s theme – TURMOIL –…

Symposium: Discursive and Empirical Approaches to the Aesthetics of Improvised Music

In recent years, improvisation has increasingly become an object of research in musicology. In view of the large number of research projects and publications, it…