“You won’t just study sound art — you’ll make it.”
with Antje Vowinckel & Georg Werner
Sound Art for Beginners is a hands-on introduction to the world of sound as a creative medium — one of the few dedicated sound art courses in Berlin built specifically for people with no prior experience.
Over 12 weeks, you’ll learn to record, build, compose, and perform — guided step by step by two professional artists who have spent decades working at the intersection of sound, technology, and art. You’ll build your own microphones and electronic instruments from scratch. You’ll go out into Berlin and record the city. You’ll compose electroacoustic pieces in a DAW, experiment with your voice, and learn to code sound with Pure Data.
Every session concludes with a listening session or deep-listening exercise — training your ears as much as your hands. And at the end, you’ll present your work in a public performance at ACUD.
Antje Vowinckel
Sound Art & Field Recordings
Georg Werner
Sound Art & Electronics
Max 8 participants. Two instructors.
→You’ll have built your own microphones and electronic instruments from scratch.
→You’ll have recorded the city of Berlin — field recording as raw compositional material.
→You’ll compose electroacoustic pieces in a DAW, from sketch to finished work.
→You’ll have experimented with your own voice as raw material.
→You’ll code sound with Pure Data — building your own digital instruments.
→You’ll perform your final work live at a public presentation at ACUD.
A field log — from first sound to final performance
I
Foundations
What sound art is, and building your first instruments.
001
Introduction to Sound Art
Antje Vowinckel
Genres, history, and theory. What is sound art? Where did it come from? Where is it going?
002
Electroacoustic Principles in Practice, Part I
Georg Werner
Understanding sound design by building it. Construct your own simple DIY microphone and DIY loudspeaker.
003
Electroacoustic Principles in Practice, Part II
Georg Werner
Going deeper — build your own DIY contact microphone, hydrophone, and preamp.
II
Field & Composition
Recording the city, composing, and pushing the voice.
004
Field Recording
Antje Vowinckel
We meet at a lost place in Berlin and record sounds with different types of microphones. The city becomes your instrument.
005
Electroacoustic Composition, Part I
Antje Vowinckel
Working with a DAW — organizing sessions, organizing sounds, working with plugins. Your first steps composing with recorded material.
006
Sensors and Electronics for Performance and Installation, Part I
Georg Werner
Build a chirping circuit powered by the sun. Your introduction to electronics as a creative tool.
007
Creative Voice Lab
Antje Vowinckel
Automatic speaking, dialect karaoke, telephone pranks, extended voice techniques, street interviews, AI voices.
008
Electroacoustic Composition, Part II
Antje Vowinckel
Dramaturgy, creating depth, transitions, poly-layering. Taking compositions from sketches to finished pieces.
III
Interactive & Code
Sensors, space, and programming your own sound.
009
Sensors and Electronics for Performance and Installation, Part II
Georg Werner
Build a sound player with sensor input. Your instruments start responding to the world around them.
010
Performance Lab
Antje Vowinckel
Build your own setup with amplified objects, playbacks, voice, instruments, visuals, pedals, MIDI controllers.
011
Site-Specific Installation and Electronics, Part III
Georg Werner
Using a passive system in a specific place. Your work begins to inhabit space.
012
Introduction to Creative Sound Software (Pure Data)
Georg Werner
Your first steps programming sound. Free, open-source, and endlessly powerful. Build your own digital instruments.
013
Final Presentation
Antje Vowinckel & Georg Werner
Public presentation of your final performance and composition work at ACUD Kunsthaus. Friends, family, and Berlin’s sound art community are invited. This is your moment.
Who this is for
Complete beginners welcome — this is one of the few sound art courses in Berlin built specifically for people with no prior experience. What’s required is curiosity, and a willingness to build, record, and be heard.
What to bring
Nothing but yourself for the first session — all tools and components for building your instruments are provided. A notebook is recommended for the deep-listening exercises that close every session.
Details
Schedule12 sessions + final presentation
Starts14 September 2026
Time17:30
LocationACUD Kunsthaus, Berlin-Mitte
14.0921.0928.0905.1005.1012.1019.1026.1002.1109.1116.1123.1130.11 — Final Presentation
Flexible payment available — split your tuition 50:50 (first part at start, second part after Module 6). Ask us about installments.
