Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology: New Artistic Major
With the appointment of Prof. Nicola L. Hein as Professor of Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology, MHL is expanding its range of courses to include attractive, future-oriented areas. From the summer semester 2023, Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology can also be chosen as an artistic major in the Bachelor of Arts.

9 good reasons for Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology:

• Artistic major in Electronic Music, Sound Artist, Sound Installation, Instrument Building, Intermedia Art, etc.
• promotes innovative, experimental and multimedia creativity in music and sound
• develops solo and ensemble formats
• is realised on a wide variety of stages, from concert halls to the Internet
• includes intermedial work (with video, light etc.)
• sets impulses in creative and novel constellations and co-operations
• uses smartphones, tablets, video cameras, software, EEGs, EMGs, midi controllers etc. as sound generators, instruments and effects devices
• continues to develop in harmony with computer and electronic technologies
• implements digital, analogue and hybrid methods of sound generation and control

Basic idea
Digital and analogue techniques have affected the practice of music since their emergence and have profoundly changed it in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology explores contemporary modes of engagement with digital and analogue sound generators, machine learning, augmented reality, intermedia performances and many more.

Study
The artistic major Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology in the degree programme "Music Education" (Bachelor of Arts) focuses on artistic-musical performance using digital and analogue processes in the field of electronic music and sound art. The degree programme qualifies students for creative use of current software and hardware in the field of music, creative use of machine learning, independent construction of electronic musical instruments, audiovisual works, expands one's own artistic portfolio and provides diverse impulses for further musical development.

Future music teachers are enabled to give pupils access to current technologies and their creative application in music teaching through the creative use of software, programming, machine learning, internet music practices, electronic and analogue sound production.

Study contents
The artistic major Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology in the Bachelor of Arts comprises individual artistic tuition (8 semesters) and a final artistic presentation (1 semester):

• Major I (4 semesters)
  > digital stage performance solo and in ensemble  
  > work with quadrophony, higher order ambisonics and more
  > Programming of synthesizers, effects, controllers, live sampling e.g. in Max/MSP, Ableton Live, Pure Data, Faust, Python, etc.
  > Studio production (dealing with microphonics, arranging, editing, mixing, mastering)
  > Group improvisation & sound painting, electroacoustic improvisation

• Major II (4 semesters)
  > Making music in digital networks (telematic performance)
  > Sound installations
  > Creative application of machine learning
  > Electronic instrument making (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Latte Panda Alpha, Jetson Nano, 3D Printing, Lasercutting etc.)
  > Audiovisual work (live video, augmented and virtual reality, etc.)

• Examination module (1 semester)
  > Development and implementation of own multimedia and interdisciplinary concepts.
  > In the course of the programme, various performance opportunities, participation in projects, class evenings and cooperations.

Requirements in the qualifying examination
In order to be able to study Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology as an artistic major, the following points must be presented or completed in the aptitude test:

• a 10-minute live performance of your own music using your own digital and/or analogue sound media (computer, controller, modular synthesiser, no-input mixer, looper or similar),
• a 5-minute improvisation on a musical concept of your own choice, and
• an approx. 3-minute explanatory video on the electronic system / instrument used, which deals with the musical and technical working method.

In order to prepare successfully for the aptitude test, it is recommended that you contact us informally in good time to arrange a consultation.

Contact
All information about Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology at the MHL can be obtained from Mr.
Prof. Nicola Leonard Hein

Seminare

• MHL-Instrument Builders Ensemble
• Telematic Music Network
• Interactive Music Systems | Max/MSP
• Introduction to Sound Art
• Electronic Studio Methods and Composition
• Advanced Computer-Assisted Composition
• Sound Synthesis Techniques and Creative Coding
• Multimedia Atelier: Light and Video

Klassenabende

Einzelunterricht

Das MHL-Instrumental Builders Ensemble: Liveaufzeichnung vom 20.01.2024 aus dem Gro?en Saal der MHL mit Studierenden der MHL, Prof. Nicola Hein (Leitung) 

Gastdozierende sind ebenso ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Bereichs Digitale Kreation an der MHL. Hier ein ?berblick der bisheringen Gastdozierenden: 

2023

• Max Eastley
• Axel D?rner
• Miller Puckette
• Alvin Curran
• Nic Collins
• John Bischoff
• Dafna Naphtali
• Constantin Basica
• Till Bovermann
• Alberto De Campo
• Scott Willson
• Hannes Hoelzl
• Cat Hope
• Miya Masaoka
• Tina Tonagel
• Claudia Schmitz
• Claudia Robles-Angel
• Marko Ciciliani

2022

• Georg Hajdu
• Ken Ueno
• Viola Yip
• Alessandro Bertinetto
• Raphael Sbrzesny
• Mathias Beyerlein

Auch die Forschung und das Abhalten von künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Tagungen ist für den Bereich Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology ein wichtiges Aktionsfeld. In der Vergangenheit wurden die folgenden Forschungs-Veranstaltungen realisiert: 

2023 

• DEGEM Symposium"Artistic and Artificial? – Aktuelle Perspektiven auf künstliche Intelligenz und Musik”
• Sinne|Sinn: Ger?usch – Musik – Ger?uschmusik

Die Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology arbeitete bereits mit folgenden Partnern und Institutionen zusammen:

• Immersive Medien der TH 中国足球彩票
• andere Studios
• Nordic Film Festival
• Travemünder Woche

Youtube

• Adrian Thie?: Hybrid Structures – LIVE
• Adrian Thie?: Modular Reverberations – LIVE
• Adrian Thie?: Hybrid Structures – LIVE

Vimeo 

Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology at the MHL
Gro?e Petersgrube 21
23552 中国足球彩票

Prof. Nicola Leonard Hein
2.47a
T: +49 (0)451-1505-234
Mail to Mr. Prof. Hein

Technical Management Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology
Dr. Louis Goldford
2.47a
T: +49 (0)451-1505-234
Mail to Mr. Dr. Goldford