Research Training Group "Topology of Technology"
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Landwehrstraße 54 (building S4 | 24 / 106)
64293 Darmstadt
waldecker(at)gugw.tu-darmstadt.de

Music, Technology, Aesthetics: A Sociology of the Recording Studio

• Sociology of music
• Qualitative social research
• Theories of practice
• Critical Theory (pre Habermas)

since 4/2013 Doctoral canditate at research training group "Topology of Technology", Technische Universität Darmstadt
2012 Magister Artium in sociology, philosophy and American studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (equivalent to MA)
2007/08 Visting student in sociology and philosophy at Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
2006 – 2012 Occasional teaching assistant jobs with Prof. Stefan Hirschauer and Prof. Herbert Kalthoff as well as a student research assistant job with Junior Prof. Johannes Angermüller, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2004 Abitur (Higher Education Entrance Qualification)

5/2015 Panel Organization “Music, Materiality and Subjectivities” (with Martin Winter, Aachen and Georg Fischer, Berlin) and Paper “Aural Monads – Headphones, Music’s Material Qualities and Public Space,” 14th Annual STS Conference – Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, Graz, Austria
3/2015 “Musique as Technique and Technology – Adorno’s Concept of Technology and the Sociology of Music,” Presentation at Technospaces Conference, TU Darmstadt
11/2014 Reviews of Tobias Goll, Daniel Keil und Thomas Telios (ed.): Critical Matter. Diskussionen eines neuen Materialismus, Münster 2013; Steffen Scholl: Musik – Raum – Technik. Zur Entwicklung und Anwendung der graphischen Programmierumgebung „Max“, Bielefeld 2014, in: Testcard. Beiträge zur Popgeschichte No. 24.
6/2014 “Forms of Knowledge in the Recording Studio,” Presentation at Conference Auditory Knowledge Cultures – The Knowledge of Sonic Practices, Joint Conference of Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz and Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Austria
5/2014 “Adorno and Horkheimer on Myth and Enlightenment”
Presentation at Lecture Series on Forms of Irrationality, Universität Heidelberg
12/2013 “Music, Technology, Aesthetics: On the Ethnography of the Recording Studio” Presentation at Research Colloquium “Space, Place, Power”, Technische Universität Darmstadt
2013 Translation of Fourcade, Marion (2007): “Theories of Markets and Theories of Society”, American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 50, pp. 1015 – 1034, as “Wirtschaftssoziologie als Gesellschaftssoziologie,” in: Jens Maeße (ed.): Ökonomie, Diskurs, Regierung. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, pp. 35 – 56.

Summer Term 2014  Graduate course "Music, Technology and Society," Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Summer Term 2013 Undergraduate course "Inequality in Education," Institute of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
Winter Term 2009/10 Graduate course "Global Ethography", teaching assistant to Prof. Herbert Kalthoff, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz