Marco Wedel is a Berlin-based composer, musician, and humanities scholar working across contemporary music, political philosophy, and technology. His artistic and academic practice is shaped by a transdisciplinary approach that brings musical experimentation into dialogue with social and philosophical questions.

With a background in jazz, composition, and improvisation – including studies at Berklee College of Music – he creates works that explore human presence, interaction, freedom, and responsibility. His compositions often combine precisely defined structures with spaces for intuition, negotiation, and play.

A recurring concern in his music is the fragile movement between individuality and collectivity. His works investigate how musical situations can emerge from shared attention, how freedom becomes perceptible within constraints, and how sound may function not only as material, but also as a form of social and embodied interaction. More recent projects extend these questions to the relationship between human expression and algorithmic transformation.

Marco holds a PhD in political philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin and works as a researcher and lecturer at Technische Universität Berlin. His research focuses on digitisation, artificial intelligence, democratic participation, and education. These fields increasingly intersect with his artistic practice, particularly in projects concerned with human–machine relationships, artistic agency, and the social conditions of technological change.

Central to both his artistic and academic work is an understanding of doubt as a productive force: an openness to questioning established forms, one’s own assumptions, and seemingly inevitable developments. For him, this capacity for doubt is closely connected to human sovereignty – to the possibility of acting consciously and responsibly within the structures and technologies that shape our lives. Both are essential to artistic freedom, intellectual responsibility, and democratic engagement.

His works have been presented in Germany and internationally and have received prizes and distinctions. He has collaborated with musicians, ensembles, researchers, and artists from a range of disciplines. Alongside his compositional practice, he contributes to artistic, academic, and public initiatives concerned with music, technology, education, and society.