The Berlin School of Sound offers training in sound art, sound design, music composition and audio production. We offer regular workshops and seminars as well as intensive multi-week courses and summer programs. In these courses, basic knowledge is taught: Sound and sound art, acoustic art, media art, radio drama, performance, installation, audio production, analog sound synthesis (e.g. through modular synthesizers), programming and digital processing, AI music, spatial and site-specific concepts and transcultural artistic practices. The focus is on creative and artistic aspects. Our courses prepare students for various professional activities, e.g. sound artist, composer, sound designer, podcaster, director (radio play, game, video and film). Our approach combines theory, practice and active listening. Our teaching includes practical exercises, technical know-how, basic physical knowledge, role-playing and research in individual and group work, as well as discussions, lectures, professional networking and self-management.

A Mentorship Program

You can sign up for individual mentorship with our teachers. Many of our teachers are experienced professors and renowned artists from the incredibly vibrant Berlin culture landscape. We can give you the training you need in media and artistic production in sound in order to reach your goals whatever your background, produce work you love, and have an inspiring exchange of ideas along the way. We can also help you gain the knowledge and make connections you need to enter a professional career track without cumbersome academic rigamarole.

Workshops, Seminars and Courses on a practice-based Program

The Berlin School of Sound offers an education in sound art, sound design, music composition, audio production and other related skills through courses given at different times in the year. We periodically offer workshops and seminars and intensive 8-week courses and summer programs. Key skill areas include basic tools of sound, sound art and sound studies, analog synthesis, programming and digital processing, AI music, spatial and site-specific audio, composition, audio production and transcultural sound practices.

Acud Club

During most workshops, seminars or intensive courses, you can present your work at the end alongside that of other participants and our mentors in one of our showcase evenings in the renowned Acud Club here in Berlin, Mitte. This is the core feature of our practice-based philosophy: make work you love as the focus of the courses, and perform/exhibit it for the public as soon as possible, in order to learn and grow artistically while part of a supportive community.

Studio Project Courses

You can sign up for a Studio Project Course utilizing our professional recording studio. Final work on the Studio Project Course can be presented in the Acud Club. This structure may be changed to accommodate the experience level  or needs of a particular student. Please contact us to inquire.

Your work can potentially be showcased at an event at the Errant Sound gallery or you can have the opportunity to produce a show for our radio program with Colaboradio on FRBB 88.4. Some of our alumni have featured in our sponsored festivals. We aim to launch your artistic career by gaining access to prestigious institutions with an impressive portfolio.

Since we have relationships with other university, residency, performance and art institutions in Berlin and beyond, both our class-based or individual-based tuition can be specifically geared towards goals like getting you ready for application tests at institutions like the UdK Berlin, or a funded Ph.D. program in the USA, or alternatively by giving you the know-how you require to apply for internships at galleries, project spaces, recording studios, production houses or participation in important festivals like Club Transmediale or others.

Ensembles and Clubs

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Generative Music Production in Max and Max-for-Live

June 24th – August 2nd

Modular Synthesis for Live Performance and Sound Design

May 5th – June 30th

Interdisciplinary Audio Production: Professional Sound in Context,
March 4th – May 5th

AI Music with Ktonal and hexorcismos AKA Moisés Horta Valenzuela, October 23rd – November 18th, 2023

Ktonal is: Antoine Daurat, Bjoern Erlach, Roberto Fausti, Genoël von Lilienstern and Dohi Moon

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