by zaddachmusic

| Welcome to Dr. Wolf-Georg Zaddach’s academic homepage |

This page shall give you an overview about my academic work. Feel free to contact me via wolf-georg.zaddach [at] t-online.de

If you’re interested in my work as a musician and composer, please have a look at my musician homepage!

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/ Nov 2025

In 2025, some articles on my research topics – mainly artistic research, AI and music, sustainability and music, music in state socialism – were published, also check the research / publication page:

  • „Musikkulturen, Nachhaltigkeit und Klimabildung“, in: Handbuch Klimabildung, hrsg. v. Dietmar Höttecke et al., Wiesbaden: Springer; mit Michael Ahlers.
  • “Methods for the Twenty-First Century: Artistic Research as a New Research Paradigm in Popular Music Studies”, in: Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies, hrsg. von Mike Dines, Fiorenzo Palermo und Shara Rambarran, London: Intellect, S. 34-51; mit Michael Kahr.
  • „Artificial Intelligence and the Creative Practice of Professional Songwriting“, in: Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Populäre Kultur und Musik (69. Jahrgang), hrsg. v. Michael Ahlers, Jan Herbst und Knut Holtsträter, Münster: Waxmann, S. 137-158.
  • “Blackened Textures: Black Metal’s Sonic Complexity During the Second and Third Waves”, in: The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition. Evolution of Structure, Expression and Production, hrsg. v. Lori Burns und Ciro Scotto, New York: Routledge, S. 182-200.
  • „Klimakrise, Biodiversitätskrise, ökologische Nachhaltigkeit – und Musik? Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Musikforschung und -praxis im 21. Jahrhundert“, in: Martin Pfleiderer et al. (Hgg.), Musik in der spätmodernen Gesellschaft. Analysen – Positionen – Perspektiven, Waxmann, S. 31-64; mit Marlene Behrmann, Dirk Dullmaier und Laura Schwinger.
  • „Songwriting-Camps. Kollaborative Songwriting-Praxis zwischen Songwriting-Tradition und musikwirtschaftlicher Transformation“, in: Martin Pfleiderer et al. (Hgg.), Musik in der spätmodernen Gesellschaft. Analysen – Positionen – Perspektiven, Waxmann, S. 197-218; mit Carsten Wernicke, Michael Ahlers und Jan-Peter Herbst.
  • „Perspektiven für die Musikforschung im 21. Jahrhundert? Künstlerische Forschung und Musikwissenschaft, in: Die Musikforschung 4/2024, S. 364-376.
  • “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in songwriting and composing – perspectives and challenges in creative practices”, in: Artificial Intelligence – Intelligent Art? Human-Machine Interaction and Creative Practice, ed. by Robin Markus Auer / Dietmar Elflein / Sebastian Kunas / Jan Röhnert / Eckart Voigts, Bielefeld: transcript, S. 217-232; mit Björn Tillmann.
  • “Artistic Research in Popular Music: A Critical Evaluation of Potentials and Challenges” in: IASPM Journal (special issue on practice-based research) 13/1/2023 214-237, https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/1289

/ March 2024

I’m happy to announce that I start as tenured Professor for music production and songwriting at Macromedia University Berlin.

/ September 2023

Our conference on music in late modernity takes place in Weimar. I will speak on songwriting camps and will conduct a workshop on climate crisis and sustainability and music.

/ August 2023

Published: A new peer-reviewed paper on „Artistic Research in Popular Music: A Critical Evaluation of Potentials and Challenges“, Open-Access in the IASPM Journal.

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