Lucas Auradniczek

Lucas Auradniczek, M.A., completed his studies in Applied Musicology at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen in 2024. Since January 2025, he has been a doctoral fellow at the University of Erfurt at the IGS “Resonant Self-World Relations”.

During his studies, he worked as a student assistant for Prof. Dr. Matteo Nanni in Historical Musicology and Dr. Sabine Schneider-Binkl in Music Education. He also worked in the Research Department and at the International Office of the JLU.

Work and research experience at the German Music Council, the Erasmus+ program “Values and Attitudes Education for Inclusive Europe” and in various projects on identity, the voice or the Holocaust in the context of music form his interdisciplinary view of the phenomenon of music in addition to his own artistic activities.

Areas of interest

• Music Aesthetics and Philosophy of Music (esp. Peircean semiotics, phenomenology, theory of world relations)
• Theory of musical meaning-making in popular music
• Alienation and resonance as concepts in music sociology and aesthetics
• Musical semiotics and sign theory
• Qualitative music education research and participatory music formats

Alienation as a music-aesthetic relationship quality

Since the beginning of bourgeois culture at the latest, the aesthetic and music in particular have often been ascribed a special role in shaping life: As a sphere that opposes the rationalization processes of modernity, it offers an opportunity for self-realization and autonomy in its self-purpose of sensuality and experience.

However, the function of music is and was more complex than that of an “aesthetic oasis”. Rather, music takes on the role of a counterpart with whom a relationship can be entered into, as well as a medium that represents a form of relationship in itself. It can certainly be one of the ethereal, unregulated world, which is perceived as autonomous and thus particularly favors moments of resonance (in Hartmut Rosa's sense). In its current popular manifestation, however, music is deeply intertwined with principles of rationalization - and perhaps has been since the beginning of modernity.

Our creative economy produces signs and emotions for the user, which in turn are interwoven into a complex semiotic network that goes beyond the sphere of music. The position of mass-consumed music (popular music) in society has not only been discussed in the field of music aesthetics since the beginning of modernity. Is it a mirror of an increasingly passive aestheticization or can a critical potential be discerned in it? A rapidly accelerating and interconnected world continues to promote the discourse on the role of the musical-aesthetic for the subject and society.

Within these lines of thought, the dissertation project deals with the concept of alienation and with popular music. Alienation as a relational quality plays an interesting role in the aesthetic context: it is normally considered an undesirable state, but it is also thematized in popular music, both lyrically and musically, and evoked. Already addressed in various writings since the Romantic period, Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory and other theories of world relations currently offer promising points of reference for exploring the interweaving of popular music and alienation.

Edited volume

1. [i. Ersch.] Resonant Self–World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices: Opening a Field of Research, hg. von Elisabeth Begemann, Ursula Gärtner, Stephan Moebius, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Hartmut Rosa, Jörg Rüpke, Wolfgang Spickermann. In Kooperation mit Lucas Auradniczek, J. William Santos, João Tziminadis. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Articles in edited volumes and journals [blind peer-reviewed]

1. Auradniczek, Lucas [i. Ersch.]: “Music as Self, as Other, as World. On the Uses of Peircean Semiotics for Understanding Musical Representation and Meaning” In: Resonant Self–World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices: Opening a Field of Research, hg. von Elisabeth Begemann, Ursula Gärtner, Stephan Moebius, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Hartmut Rosa, Jörg Rüpke, Wolfgang Spickermann. In Kooperation mit Lucas Auradniczek, J. William Santos, João Tziminadis. Berlin: De Gruyter.
2. Auradniczek, Lucas; Döller, Marcus; Fazio-Vargas, Daniela; Pettenkofer, Andreas; Vinzent, Marcus [i. Ersch.]: “Mediation Through Signs” In: Resonant Self–World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices: Opening a Field of Research, hg. von Elisabeth Begemann, Ursula Gärtner, Stephan Moebius, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Hartmut Rosa, Jörg Rüpke, Wolfgang Spickermann. In Kooperation mit Lucas Auradniczek, J. William Santos, João Tziminadis. Berlin: De Gruyter.
3. Auradniczek, L, Wilde, B. & Schneider-Binkl, S. (i. Ersch.): „Musikalische Bildung, ästhetische Erfahrungen und politische Bildung: Verbindungslinien am Beispiel einer Jazz-Oper mit Holocaust-Thematik“ In: Perspektiven verbinden - Schnittmengen, Synergien und Abgrenzungslinien von politischer und kultureller Bildung [Sammelband der Gesellschaft für politische Jugend- und Erwachsenenbildung], hg, von T. Bechtel, S. Göhmann & B. Vajen (Hrsg.). Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau Verlag
4. Auradniczek, Lucas (2024): „Populäre Musik und Genozide. Musikpädagogische Chancen in der Erinnerungsarbeit am Beispiel des Songs Holy Mountains der Metal-Band »System Of A Down« (2005)” In: Erinnerungskulturen und Demokratiebildung : interdisziplinäre musikpädagogische Perspektiven, hg. von Sabine Schneider-Binkl. Augsburg: Wißner Musikbuch, S. 93-102.

Posters

1. Schneider-Binkl, Sabine; Achhorner, Bernhard; Auradniczek, Lucas; Bosch Sanfélix, Mercé. (2026): »Mit-Tanzen« Live observations Interviews Video-Stimulated Recall Interviews Fostering participation through music and movement experiences: how can inclusive dance projects contribute to social cohesion? 8.-11.04.2026. 33rd EAS Conference Wien.
2. Schneider-Binkl, S.; Immerz, A.; Auradniczek, L.; Lothwesen, H.; Niklosz, M. (2023): Zusammenhänge von stimmlichem Selbstkonzept und Identitätsentwicklung im Professionalisierungsprozess von Lehramtsstudierenden.Tagung „Lehrkräfteprofessionalisierung: Facetten, Förderung und zukünftige Herausforderungen“. 23. – 24.03.2023, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
3. Schneider-Binkl, S.; Immerz, A.; Auradniczek, L.; Keilhofer, M. & Lothwesen, H. (2022): Identitätsentwicklung und Selbstkonzept bei Lehramtsstudierenden am Beispiel Stimme. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Musikpädagogische Forschung (AMPF) vom 21. – 23.09.2022 an der Universität Augsburg.

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• 07/01/2027                “We’re Free”: Word-Music Relationships and the Dialectics of Liberty in System of a Down’s “Holy Mountains”,  2027 MLA Convention, Los Angeles.

• 10/07/2026                „Every Day is Exactly the Same” Musical Semiosis, World-Relations and the  Meaning of Estrangement in Popular Song. 11. IASPM D-A-CH Collegium Musicum Populare, Salzburg.

• 31/10/2025                Performativität und soziale Räume. (Theoretische) Perspektiven auf das Format ‘Mit-Tanzen’. Symposium “Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt durch Musik, Bewegung und Tanz”, Trossingen.

• 20/10/2025                Kommentar zu Volkskörper: Performing the Austrian „Hoamat“ in Popular Music. Tagung Indifference. Hostility, Disgust: The Ambiguity of Heimat”, Graz.

• 25/07/2025                Populäre Musik und Entfremdung. Forschung im Kontext der Weltbeziehungssoziologie nach Hartmut Rosa. 10. IASPM D-A-CH Collegium Musicum Populare, Paderborn.

• 15/03/2024                (mit Sabine Schneider-Binkl) Musikalische Bildung, ästhetische Erfahrungen und politische Bildung: Verbindungslinien am Beispiel einer Jazz-Oper mit Holocaust-Thematik. GPJE-Tagung, Bremen. 

• 07/11/2023                Chair der Podiumsdiskussion: Dear Erich. History and Memory in Music. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Gießen.

• 13/01/2023                       (mit Sabine Schneider-Binkl) Vocal Self-Concept and Identity Development of Student Teachers, Pedagogic Research in Music Education, Leeds (online).