Wolf-Georg Zaddach, PhD (*1985) studied musicology as well as cultural management at the Mujsic University Franz Liszt Weimar and modern history at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena as well as jazz guitar at the VOS Praha with David Dorůžka.
From 2011 to 2021, he worked at the department of musicology in Weimar in the DFG-funded research project “Melodic-Rhythmic Design of Jazz Improvisations. Computer-based musical analysis of monophonic jazz solos” (Prof. Dr. Martin Pfleiderer) and at the Chair of Cultural Management (Prof. Dr. Steffen Höhne). Since May 2021, he is employed at the Institute for Art, Music and their Mediation at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg with a focus on studio practice, since April 2023 in the DFG / AHRC-funded project “Songwriting Camps in the 21st Century” (Prof. Dr. Michael Ahlers).
His research interests are in the fields of Artistic Research (methods, applications), Climate Change and Music Culture, Jazz (history, theory and analysis), Rock & Heavy Metal, Music Business & AI, and Sociology and Psychology of Music (creativity & improvisation, analysis and digital methods, youth cultures).
Wolf-Georg Zaddach has taught at numerous institutions in scientific and artistic departments, including the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM) in Berlin, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, Columbia University NYC, Bauhaus University Weimar, Initiative Musik Berlin, Stiftung Ettersberg Weimar, Demokratie jetzt e.V., Deutsche POP Dresden.
In addition, Wolf-Georg Zaddach is artistically active as a guitarist and music producer in various genres. In 2023 he was signed to Grrrow! Records (distributed by SPV/ Napalm Records) and released “Solastalgia I”, his first full-length solo album in experimental black metal. He also works as a songwriter and session musician in jazz and hip hop.
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