Dr Malte Kobel (he/him) is a musicologist and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. His work engages critically and theoretically with questions of musical aesthetics, experimental musics, voice and performance studies. Malte is currently working on a postdoctoral project around Ornette Coleman’s musical thought, focussing on questions of composition, sociality and music as philosophical practice.
Previously, he was a lecturer at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. He received a PhD from Kingston University London, the manuscript “The musicking voice: performance, affect and listening” is currently being worked into a monograph. Malte has published articles in Journal for Cultural Research, Sound Studies, Pulse and book chapters in A Sound Word Almanac (2024), Mediale Stimmentwürfe. Perspectives of Media Voice Designs (2022) and Musik und Emotionen: Kulturhistorische Perspektiven (2020).
He co-runs the Berlin-based record label ‘Hyperdelia’ and was co-founder of BLATT 3000, a magazine and festival for exchange and critical discussion around music.
Malte is interested in supporting PhD projects relating to musical aesthetics, critical theory, experimental musics, pop music studies and voice.
Castrato as cyborg: premodern posthumanism & the epistemology of voice
Kobel, M. (2024). Castrato as cyborg: premodern posthumanism & the epistemology of voice. Sound Studies, 10(1), 121-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2023.2295711
2024
View OutputNuscheln [ˈnʊʃl̩n or ˈnʊʒəln]; German, verb. Translation: to mumble, to mutter.
Kobel, M. (2023). Nuscheln [ˈnʊʃl̩n or ˈnʊʒəln]; German, verb. Translation: to mumble, to mutter. Bloomsbury.
2023
View OutputEldritch Priest: Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams and Other Imaginary Refrains
Kobel, M. (2022). Eldritch Priest: Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams and Other Imaginary Refrains. Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture, 9. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10547335
2022
View OutputKünstliche Stimme/n in der Musik von Kate Bush
Kobel, M. (2022). Künstliche Stimme/n in der Musik von Kate Bush. kopaed Verlag.
2022
View OutputThe musicking voice: performance, affect and listening
Kobel, M. (2022). The musicking voice: performance, affect and listening. [Doctoral Thesis, Kingston University].
2022
View OutputDispositive des Hörens: Formationen von Emotionen und Klang in der Hi-Fi-Kultur der späten 1950er Jahre am Beispiel des Genres ‘Exotica’
Kobel, M. (2020). Dispositive des Hörens: Formationen von Emotionen und Klang in der Hi-Fi-Kultur der späten 1950er Jahre am Beispiel des Genres ‘Exotica’. (Studien zu Musik und Gender). J.B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05663-4_10
2020
View Output‘Just a man singing’: Scott Walker and the voice of another
Kobel, M. (2020). ‘Just a man singing’: Scott Walker and the voice of another. Journal for Cultural Research, 24(3), 236-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2020.1806439
2020
View OutputThe drum machine's ear: XLN Audio's drum sequencer XO and algorithmic listening
Kobel, M. (2019). The drum machine's ear: XLN Audio's drum sequencer XO and algorithmic listening. Sound Studies, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2019.1661163
2019
View OutputBeat Furrer und das Visuelle. Perspektiven komponieren oder Bild-Werden der Musik
Kobel, M. (2016). Beat Furrer und das Visuelle. Perspektiven komponieren oder Bild-Werden der Musik. (Musik-Konzepte). Edition Text und Kritik in Richard Boorberg Verlag GmbH and Co. KG.
2016
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