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 "Making Listening Audible" by Lílian Campesato (funded 2025-27 by the ERC’s Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions).

Co-supervisor of the artistic PhD project "The Body as the Site for Composition" by Ragnhild May (funded 2023-26 by a NovoNordisk Mads Øvlisen PhD Scholarship) and the PhD project "Genre Practice In Online Left-Field Music Communities On TikTok" by Anders Bach (funded 2023-26 by an IKK PhD grant).

 

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Areas of teaching and supervision: 

sound studies, popular music, sound design, sound art, game sound, music culture, aural architecture, music video, 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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   Idiosyncrasy as method: Reflections on the epistemic continuum

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

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

8. Published

   What Sounds Do: New Directions in an Anthropology of Sound

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

   Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-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 2024 → 22 Aug 2024

   Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

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

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

   15 Oct 2024 → 17 Oct 2024

   Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

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

   Schulze, Holger (Organizer)

   13 Sep 2022 → 16 Sep 2022

   Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation 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 - types › Organisation 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 types › Lecture and oral contribution

6. Authoritarian Conditions

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

   8 Nov 2017 → 9 Nov 2017

   Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

7. Pre-Acoustic Sound Studies

   Schulze, Holger (Organizer)

   21 Apr 2016

   Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

8. New Approaches to Listening

   Schulze, Holger (Organizer)

   19 Nov 2015

   Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference