March 2025:
Berlin School of Sound announces two new courses (and more to come):
The Modular Synthesis for Live Performance and Composition (June 4th – June 29th 2025) course dives into musical expression with modular synthesizers as music instruments from various perspectives. This course provides a hands-on introduction and overview of modular synthesis for live performance and sound design, from the basics to individual artistic approaches. Lecturers are Stephane Lefrancois, and Katharina Bévand, Workshops and Masterclasses with with Kabuki, Sanja Star, KOMA Elektronik and Spatial Media Lab.
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Early Bird fee available!
And: The course Expanded DJing between Clubmusic and the Experimental (July 1st – July 25th 2025) introduces aesthetics and practical methods of DJing and expands general notions of this artistic practice. Combining theory and practical, hands-on exercises to provide a broad range of skills (from selecting, mixing, dramaturgy, experimental techniques, to distributing mixes and creating an artist’s profile). Lecturers are Marc Matter (Institut für Feinmotorik), Don’t DJ and Lena Willikens; Workshops and Masterclasses with Phillip Sollmann (Efdemin) and Darwin.
More details and opening of registration mid-March, 2025.
January 2025:
Marc Matter new Artistic Director!
Artist and researcher Marc Matter (*1974) is the new Artistic Director for Berlin School of Sound. He is active in experimental music and sound art since the mid-1990s and holds a diploma in media art at KHM (Academy for Media Arts, Cologne). Marc is a founding member of the artist’s collective Institut für Feinmotorik and was a curator and resident-DJ at Salon des Amateurs (Düsseldorf). After finishing his PhD at Hamburg University with a thesis on sound technology in language-based sound works. Marc regularly realizes commissioned compositions for radio broadcasts (SWR, WDR, Deutschlandfunk Kultur etc.), performing his work live, and co-founding the label Spoken Matter (with Andreas Bülhoff). As a reasarcher, he was fellow at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale Unviersity and researcher at Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht.
September 2024:
Founder and Artistic Director Jeremy Woodruff is now Senior Scientist at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) Künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Doktoratsstudium (Dr. Artium)
In September 2024, Dr. Jeremy Woodruff retired as Artistic Director of the Berlin School of Sound but remains general manager. He will help to found the new Zentrum für künstlerische Forschung at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz (Kunstuni Graz), teach doctoral students and lead the research unit Sonic Borderlines as Senior Scientist for Artistic Research at KUG. Jeremy may from time to time continue to co-/curate sponsored festivals in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut im Exil and others through Berlin School of Sound and occasionally participate as a teacher on summer courses.
