Ania Mauruschat

Ania Mauruschat is a writer and researcher working on sound, aesthetics, and environmental humanities. She previously worked in public radio and as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow. Her work focuses on noise and listening as forms of knowledge and artistic research. She is based between the island of Samsø (Denmark) and Berlin (Germany), moving across sonic and cultural landscapes.

By Ania Mauruschat

  • in brief
    13.04

    A Cave of Sound: TAK Ensemble Cuts into the Acoustic Darkness

    © Titilayo Ayangade
    TAK Ensemble once again demonstrates its remarkable sensitivity to the materiality of sound, inviting listeners to move beyond the often harsh surface of the present – and, perhaps, to breathe more freely again
    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