Ania Mauruschat

Ania Mauruschat is a German sound studies scholar, currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. From 2002 to 2012 she worked full-time for public radio stations as author, presenter, editor and producer. From 2012 to 2014 she worked as a scientific assistant, lecturer, and project manager at the University of Basel (Switzerland). 2018 to 2023 she was a member of the interdisciplinary doctoral program “Epistemologies of Artistic Practices” in Zurich (Switzerland). From September 2021 to October 2023 she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research Fellow of the European Commission. During this period her MSCA research project “Sounding Crisis. Sounds and Energies within Climate Change“ was hosted at the Sound Studies Lab of the University of Copenhagen. It researches the sonic agency of the sound practices of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous activists and artists in Denmark, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and Australia, which address the human-nature-relationship in times of climate change. For more information about the research project please visit the website www.soundingcrisis.eu 

By Ania Mauruschat

  • PEER audio paper
    11.12.2023

    The heartbeat of the drum

    For over 4000 years, the Inuit in Kalaallit Nunaat, as Greenland is called in Greenlandic, have been living in an intimate relationship with nature in the Arctic. Their knowledge of how to survive under such harsh conditions has been preserved and passed on via sound through the millennia.
    By Ania Mauruschat
  • article
    08.12.2023

    Thinking decolonially towards music’s institution: A post-conference reflection

    Codex Quetzalecatzin. © Courtesy of Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
    How do we talk about musical colonisation? How do we talk about this work of talking about it; that is, interrogating what we mean by colonisation and its counter-logic of decolonisation or decoloniality?
    By Anjeline de Dios, Phil Dodds , Sanne Krogh Groth, Xenia Benivolski, Hild Borchgrevink, Nils Bubandt, Yurii Chekan , Maria Rijo Lopes Da Cunha , Brandon Farnsworth, Rosanna Lovell , Caryl Mann, Ania Mauruschat, Ucee-Uchenna L. Nwachukwu, Ellen Marie Bråthen Steen & Yiren Zhao