Holger Schulze

Holger Schulze

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    Holger Schulze (*1970) is full professor in musicology at the University of Copenhagen and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He serves as co-editor of the international journal for historical anthropology Paragrana, as co-editor for the journal Seismograf Peer, and as founding editor of the book series Sound Studies. Together with Jennifer Stoever and Michael Bull, he is currently working on The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies, a three-volume collection of over 150 articles by leading scholars and artists on the past, present and various possible futures of the field. 

    His research moves between a cultural history of the senses, sound in popular culture and the anthropology of media. He is a founding member of the European Sound Studies Association. Between 2012-2018 he was an associated investigator at the cluster of excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung: an interdisciplinary laboratory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; between 2008-2016 he was director of the international research network Sound in Media Culture, and between 2000-2009 he was a co-founder and the first head of department of the first European MA-programme in Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

    He was invited visiting professor at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as senior fellow at CINEPOETICS at the Freie Universität Berlin. He served as a curator for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin and he produced radio features for Deutschlandradio Kultur. He writes for Merkur, Seismograf, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Positionen, Texte zur Kunst, taz - die tageszeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, der freitag.

     

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    Portrait: „For Holger Schulze, immersive listening is his soundtrack to everyday life“ (2019)

    Interviews: Hordan sanser vi lyd? (DR P4 2023), Holger Schulze und sein Sound Studies Lab (SWR2 radio 2022), The Sonic Persona and The Servant Class (Podcast SOUNDS ABSURD 2022), "​Schallwaffen sind im Grundsatz antidemokratisch​" (Philosophie Magazin 2021), "So ist für Nutzer klar: Die Position der Dienstmagd hat eine Frau" (DIE ZEIT 2019)

     

    Programmatic monograph: The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury 2018)

    Programmatic journal article: Corpus – Dispositive – Persona: Formants of an Anthropology of Sound (Swedish Journal of Music Research 2018)

     

    Recent media contributions: The Seduction of Meme Music (Norient 2021), The Sound Politics of Videocalls (Norient 2020), The hands just carry on by themselves (Seismograf 2020), The Sound of Corona (Passive/Aggressive 2020)

     

    Join our biweekly Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies (on Zoom)!

    More informations on the website of the Sound Studies Lab

     

    Currently supervising: the artistic PhD project Communicating Vessels by Jenny Gräf Sheppard (funded 2020-23 by a NovoNordisk Mads Øvlisen PhD Scholarship), the PhD project Sounding the Dissolution by Giada Dalla Bontà (funded 2021-24 by an IKK PhD grant), the postdoc project Sounding Crisis by Ania Mauruschat (funded 2021-23 by the ERC’s Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions).

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    Areas of teaching and supervision: 

    sound studies, popular music, sound design, game sound, sound art, music video, music culture, aural architecture, sensory studies, anthropology of sound.

     

    Selected publications

    1. Published

      How To Think Sonically? On the Generativity of the Flesh

      Schulze, Holger, 27 Feb 2017, Sonic Thinking: A Media Philosophical Approach. Herzogenrath, B. (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic, p. 217-242

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    2. Published

      Sound as Theory 1863-2014: From Hermann von Helmholtz to Salomé Voegelin

      Schulze, Holger, 1 Nov 2018, The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies. Bull, M. (ed.). Routledge, p. 5-15 11 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    3. Published

      Idiosyncrasy as method: Reflections on the epistemic continuum

      Schulze, Holger, 30 Aug 2016, In: Seismograf/DMT.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    4. Accepted/In press

      What Do Sounds Need, What Do We Grant Them – Or Not? A Few Considerations On The Affordances Of The Sonic

      Schulze, Holger, 31 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) Errant Sound Reader: Thoughts and Practices from a Berlin Artist-Run Space. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    5. Published

      Sonic Writing

      Schulze, Holger, 15 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 659-669

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    6. Published

      What is an Anthropology of Sound? Delinking Anthropology and The Generativity of Idiosyncrasies

      Schulze, Holger, 15 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1-20

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    7. Published

      Sonic Epistemologies: Pre-history, examples, contemporary trajectories

      Schulze, Holger, 2024, The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies. Groth, H. & Murphet, J. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 355-365 11 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    8. Published

      What Sounds Do: New Directions in an Anthropology of Sound

      Sheppard, J. G. (ed.), Dalla Bonta, Giada (ed.), Mauruschat, Ania (ed.) & Schulze, Holger (ed.), 2023, Copenhagen: Seismograf.

      Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

    Selected activities

    1. Supervising Artistic and Practice-based Research: Publishing for Urgency.

      Bogh, M. (Organizer), Borgen, M. (Organizer), Gade, Rune (Organizer) & Schulze, Holger (Organizer)

      19 Aug 202422 Aug 2024

      Activity: Participating in an event - typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

    2. Tangentiality. Passing Relations in the Arts, Literature, Music, and Performance

      Schulze, Holger (Organizer) & Heine, Stefanie (Organizer)

      15 Oct 202417 Oct 2024

      Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

    3. What Sounds Do: New Directions in the Anthropology of Sound

      Schulze, Holger (Organizer)

      13 Sep 202216 Sep 2022

      Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

    4. Living with Plants. Mini forest as Communal Reforestation

      Schulze, Holger (Organizer)

      31 May 2023

      Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

    5. How to Do Things with Sound? An Evening on Sonic Fiction in the Arts and Activism

      Schulze, Holger (Invited speaker)

      3 Mar 2022

      Activity: Talk or presentation typesLecture and oral contribution

    6. Authoritarian Conditions

      Schulze, Holger (Organizer) & Michelsen, M. (Organizer)

      8 Nov 20179 Nov 2017

      Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

    7. Pre-Acoustic Sound Studies

      Schulze, Holger (Organizer)

      21 Apr 2016

      Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

    8. New Approaches to Listening

      Schulze, Holger (Organizer)

      19 Nov 2015

      Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

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