Jan-Peter Herbst

Presentations by Year

• "Deconstructing Metal Music Production's 'Heaviness' Aesthetic" at the 7th ISMMS Conference: New Metal Worlds: Building Bridges and Mending Broken Backs, Seville (ES), 3-6 June 2025 (with Mark Mynett).
• "The Platformization of Songwriting: An Exploration of the Interplay between Technological Constraints, Creative Agency, and Cultural Production" at the Symposium on the Platformization of Music Production, University of Oslo (NOR), 2-3 May 2025 (with Carsten Wernicke).

• "A Web Interface for Acoustic-Semantic Analysis of Extreme Metal Vocal Styles" at the annual conference of The German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Munich (GER), 6-8 September 2024 (with Isabella Czedik-Eysenberg, Eric Smialek & Christoph Reuter). Poster presentation
• "Exploring the Perception of Extreme Metal Vocals via Verbal Associations and Audio Feature Analysis" at the annual conference of The European Society for Cognitive Science of Music (ESCOM), University of York (UK), 3-6 July 2024 (with Isabella Czedik-Eysenberg & Eric Smialek). Poster presentation
• "Towards an Acoustic-semantic Space of Extreme Metal Vocal Styles" at the DAGA (German Society for Acoustics) Annual Conference for Acoustics, Leibniz University of Hanover (GER), 18-21 March 2024 (with Isabella Czedik-Eysenberg & Eric Smialek). Poster presentation

• "Was macht (Metal) Musik heavy? Empirische Studien im Schnittfeld von Practice Research, Netnography und Musikanalyse" [What makes (metal) music heavy? Empirical studies at the intersection of practice research, netnography and music analysis] at the lecture series "Cutting Edge Research on Popular Music", University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (AU), 21 November 2023.
• "Publishing Open Access Monographs as an Academic Researcher" at the conference "On the Fringes of the Publishing Landscape: OA Monographs and Institutional Publishers", convened by Academic Libraries North (ALN) (UK), 25 October 2023.
• "Songwriting Camps in the 21st Century" in the popular music lecture series at Birmingham City University (UK), 18 October 2023 (with Michael Ahlers, Simon Barber, Katherine Williams & Ingrid Tolstad).
• "Songwriting in spätmodernen Gesellschaften: Netzwerkbildungen von Schlafzimmer-Individuen bis Gruppen-Fließbändern" [Songwriting in late modern societies: Network formations from bedroom individuals to group assembly lines] at the conference "Musik in der spätmodernen Gesellschaft: Krisen – Chancen – Transformationen" at the University of Music, Weimar (GER), 21-23 September 2023 (with Michael Ahlers).
• "Towards an Analytical Methodology for Vocalist's Live Gestures in Extreme Metal" at the conference "Rock Your Body: Bodies in Interaction with Popular Music" of the German Society for Popular Music (GfPM), University of Siegen (GER), 14-16 September 2023 (with Eric Smialek).
• "Busy but Poorly Paid: Empirical Data on Precarious Jobs of Songwriters in the UK and Germany" at the conference "Popular Music in Crisis" of the International Society for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM, International), University of Minneapolis, Minneapolis (US), 26-30 June 2023 (with Michael Ahlers).

• "Peak of the Assembly Lines? Online Songwriting Camps as Current Spaces of Individual and Collaborative Creativity" at the conference "Parallel Societies: Effects of Structural Juxtapositions on Popular Music, its Research and Mediation" of the German Society for Popular Music (GfPM) and IASPM D-A-CH, Vienna University of Performing Arts (AU), 20-22 October 2022 (with Michael Ahlers).
• "What Does it Mean for Professional Metal Music Production to Move Online? A Practice-Based Analysis of Workflow, Quality and Business", conference "Challenge and Change in Popular Music" of IASPM UK & I, University of Liverpool, 31.8.-2.9.2022 (with Mark Mynett).
• "Heaviness in Metal Music Production: Investigating Complexities through Practice" at the conference "Heavy Metal in the Global South" of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS), Mexico's National Autonomous University (MEX), 7-10 June 2022 (with Mark Mynett)

• "Gear Collections as Part of the Extended Self: Individual Attributions to Musical Instruments and Equipment, and their Social Relevance" at the conference "All the Things You Are: Populäre Musik und materielle Kultur", Technical University Dortmund (GER), 22-24 October 2021 (with Jonas Menze).
• "„Es ist einfach meine innere Ablehnung": Innovation und Konservatismus in der Gitarren-Verstärkertechnik" at the conference "Electrified! Musiktechnologien und Medien im 20. Jahrhundert", Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (GER), 7-9 October 2021.
• "Recording studios as museums? Record producers' perspectives on German rock studios and accounts of their heritage practices" at the biannual IASPM D-A-CH conference, Paderborn University (GER), 12 March 2021.
• Panel discussion on 'One Nation Under a Groove', organised by the German Society for Popular Music (GfPM), 27 January 2021, Vienna University.

• "Keeper of the Seven Keys: Record Producers' Practices of Preserving German Metal" at the biannual IASPM UK & I conference, University of West London (UK), 3-5 September 2020.

• "Modern Rock", lecture at the postgraduate course MAS Pop & Rock at the University of the Arts Berne (CH), 14 December 2019.
• "The sound of Teutonic metal: A production perspective on the musical and technological differences of metal music from across the world" at the conference of the German Society for Popular Music (GfPM) in Mainz, 1-3 November 2019.
• "Teutonic heritage: A producer's view on the effects of cultural origin on Record Production and artist interaction" at the Home of Metal Symposium in Birmingham, 13 September 2019.
• "Teutonic Metal Attack. Power Metal in and from Germany" at the conference "Locating Heavy Metal Music and Culture" of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS) in Nantes (FRA), 17-20 June 2019.

• "'Gear Acquisition Syndrome' (GAS): Instrumenten- und Genre-Abhängigkeiten in den Kaufmotiven und im Sammelverhalten von MusikerInnen der Populären Musik" at the conference "(Dis-)Orientierungen populärer Musik" of the German Society for Popular Music (GfPM) at the Carl Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (GER), 17 November 2018 (with Jonas Menze).
• "Technology in Popular Music Education", lecture at the postgraduate course MAS Pop & Rock at the University of the Arts Berne (CH), 12-13 October 2018.
• "The work realities of professional studio musicians in the German popular music recording industry" at the "Crosstown Traffic" conference of the IASPM UK & Ireland, the Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production (ASARP), the International Society of Metal Music Studies (ISMMS) and the Dancecult Journal at the University of Huddersfield (UK), 3-5 September 2018.
• (with Jonas Menze) "'Gear Acquisition Syndrome': Attitudes and motifs for collecting musical gear across genres and instruments" at the "Crosstown Traffic" conference of the IASPM UK & Ireland, the Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production (ASARP), the International Society of Metal Music Studies (ISMMS) and the Dancecult Journal at the University of Huddersfield (UK), 3-5 September 2018.
• "The work realities of professional studio musicians in the German popular music recording industry" at the Music and Sound Research Seminar at Leeds Beckett University (UK), 6 June 2018.
• "British, US-American, Scandinavian and Teutonic metal. A producers' talk about nationality and culture in metal music's sound and performance (open discussion with demonstration)." Workshop with producer Charlie Bauerfeind at the conference "HardWired VI: So far, so good… so what? Approaching the Metal Realities" at the University of Siegen (GER), 3-5 May 2018.
• "The formation of the German metal scene and the question of a 'Teutonic' power metal sound" at the conference "HardWired VI: So far, so good… so what? Approaching the Metal Realities" at the University of Siegen (GER), 3-5 May 2018.

• "Old sounds with new technologies? Examining the creative potential of guitar 'profiling' technology from a production perspective" at "The Future Sound of Pop Music" conference in Bern (CH), 1 December 2017.
• "Modern Rock And Metal Music", lecture at the postgraduate course MAS Pop & Rock at the University of the Arts Berne (CH), 21 October 2017.
• "Musikpädagogik und Musiktechnologie: Eine Fallstudie aus der Praxis am Beispiel von Dub Reggae" [Music Technology and Music Education: A practice-based case study on dub reggae] at the conference "Jugend musiziert – musikkulturelle Vielfalt im Diskurs" of the Institute for Research on Musical Ability (IBFM), Paderborn University (GER), 29 September 2017. Poster presentation
• "'Heaviness' and the metal music guitar. Interactions between harmonic structure and sound from acoustic and perceptual perspectives" at the conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), University of Hamburg (GER), 15 September 2017. Poster presentation
• "Gear Acquisition Syndrome - An empirical invesigation of electric guitar players' dealings with equipment and its consequences for musical genres" at the conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), Kassel University (GER), 29 June 2017.
• "Musikalische Darstellungsweisen der Elemente am Beispiel des Konzeptalbums 'The Alchemy Index' von Thrice" [Musical presentation of the natural elements in Thrice's concept album The Alchemy Index] at a lecture series on aesthetic education at Bielefeld University (GER), 3 May 2017.
• "Transkulturelle Musikpädagogik – Ziele, Methoden und Potenziale für ästhetische Bildung" [Transcultural music education – aims, methods and potentials for aesthetic education] at a lecture series on aesthetic education, Bielefeld University (GER), 17 January 2017.

• "Shredding, Two-Hand-Tapping, Feedback. Eine experimental-analytische Studie zur Auswirkung von Gitarrenverzerrung auf das Solospiel im Rock und Metal" [An experimental and analytic study on the effects of guitar distortion on solo playing in rock and metal] at the conference of the German Association for Popular Music (GfPM), Hamburg University (GER), 19 November 2016.
• "Para-Sonic 3.0. Eine Klang-Körper-Interaktion" [Para-sonic 3.0. A sound and body interaction], Bielefeld University (GER), 11 November 2016.
• "Der Einfluss von Verzerrung auf die Wahrnehmung verschiedener Gitarrenakkorde. Eine quantitative Studie auf Grundlage psychoakustischer Messungen" [The effect of distortion on the perception of guitar chord structures. A quantitative study based on a psychoacoustic experiment] at the conference of the German Association for Music Psychology (DGM), Vienna University (A), 11 September 2016. Poster presentation
• "Verzerrung und Noise – Formen, Intentionen und Geschichte des Heavy Metal Sounds" [Distortion and noise - Forms, intentions and history on heavy metal sounds] as guest lecture in the seminar "Musik, Kultur und Geschichte des Heavy Metal" (Prof. Dr. Florian Heesch), Siegen University (GER), 28 June 2016.
• "Die Verzerrung als Gestaltungsmerkmal des Gitarrenspiels. Methodische Grundlagen und praktische Anwendungen" as guest lecture in the seminar "Stromgitarren" (Nils Kirschlager), Paderborn University (GER), 16 June 2016.
• "George Martin – Eine Rückschau auf seine Arbeit mit den Beatles und seinen Einfluss auf die Musikwelt" [George Martin – A retrospect on his work with the Beatles and his influence on the world of music], Bielefeld University (GER), 1 June 2016.
• "Das Konzeptalbum im Wandel der Zeit – Transmediale Schnittstellen als zeitgemäße ästhetische wie auch ökonomische Strategien?!" [Concept albums in the change of time – Transmedial interfaces as aesthetic and economic strategies?!], Bielefeld University (GER), 20 April 2016.
• "Methoden der Klanganalyse und ihre Anwendung in Musikpsychologie und -analyse" [Methods of sound analysis and its use for music psychology and analysis] as guest lecture in the seminar "Funktionen und Wirkungen von Musik" (Prof. Dr. Heiner Gembris), Paderborn University (GER), 19 April 2016.
• "Kommunikation und Wissenskonstruktion in der Vorlesung. Eine quantitative Praxisstudie" [Communication and construction of knowledge. A quantitave study] at the "Higher Education Day", Paderborn University (GER), 16 February 2016. Poster presentation
• "Die Verzerrung als Gestaltungsmerkmal des E-Gitarrenspiels in der Rockmusik" [The distortion as an expressive tool for rock guitar playing] at the symposium "Transcultural and Popular Music Research", Weimar University of Music (GER), 29 January 2016.

• "Dub Reggae – Das Mischpult als Instrument" [Dub reggae – the mixing desk as an instrument], Bielefeld University (GER), 12 December 2015.
• "Busby Berkeley – Höhepunkte der Choreographie des Broadway Musicals der 1930er Jahre" [Busby Berkeley – Highlights of 1930s Broadway musical choreography], Bielefeld University (GER), 4 November 2015.

• "Rethinking sound – an ontological perspective" at the Sonic Signatures Symposium, Aalborg University (DK), 9 April 2014. Poster presentation
• "'What's that sound?' Sound als didaktische Herausforderung der populären Musik" [Sound as a challenge for popular music education] at the symposium "Popmusik-Vermittlung: Zwischen Schule, Universität und Beruf", Leuphana University Lüneburg (GER), 13 February 2014.

• "Stilkopie" at the "Day of Higher Education", Paderborn University (GER), 5 March 2013.
• "Netzwerk Sound – Hören, Kultur, Praxis. Präsentation des Dissertationsprojekts" [Network sound – Listening, culture, practice. Presentation of PhD project], Paderborn University (GER), 19 February 2013.
• "Didaktik der Populären Musik. Sound und aktuelle Herausforderungen" [Popular Music Education. Sound and contemporary challenges] as guest lecture in the seminar "Musik lernen und vermitteln: Grundfragen und Perspektiven der Musikpädagogik" (Prof. Dr. Thomas Krettenauer), Paderborn University (GER), 13 January 2013.