Diploma Program

The Berlin School of Sound offers a Diploma in Sound Art. Many of our teachers are experienced professors and renowned artists. We can give you the training you need in media and artistic production in sound 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. Complete preparatory course modules to sign up for Studio and Project Work utilising our recording studio and other resources. The completion of this work is the criteria for the awarding of our Diploma.

Modular Course Programs

Course modules are a series of classes, seminars and workshops organised into the key skills and areas of expertise. Each module is an eight-week program which can be taken singly or simultaneously with others. After taking at least five modules, the student can sign up for the last and culminating Studio and Project Work module in order to earn the Diploma, if desired. Module 1, Basic Sound Techniques, is a prerequisite, as a necessary preparation for further modules except for those with previous sound experience. Module 6, Site-Specific Sound and Installation is a required module to progress to Studio and Project work. In exceptional cases this structure may be changed to accommodate the experience level  and needs of a particular student. Please contact us to inquire.

Our course modules are designed as an entrance into professional artistic work and research. Since we are a partner with many other university, residency, performance and art institutions in Berlin and beyond, modules can easily be geared especially to either getting you ready for application tests at institutions like the UdK Berlin, or ZKM Karlsruhe or alternatively by giving you the know-how you require to apply for internships at galleries, project spaces, recording studios, important festivals and production houses.

The Studio and Project Work module includes private instruction with a mentor, the creation of your own artistic support group, project work in our professional recording studio and sound lab, and performances/installations in the Acud Club Room. Your work will also be showcased at an event at the Errant Sound art gallery and you will have the opportunity to produce a show for our radio program with Colaboradio on FRBB 88.4. Studio and Project Work is designed to launch your artistic career by gaining access to prestigious institutions with an impressive portfolio.

Workshops and Seminars

We offer regular workshops and seminars to the public. Some of them are included as part of particular course modules. See module descriptions for more information.

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Ensembles and Clubs

Ensembles and Clubs are inclusive with certain course modules but open (after an interview and acceptance process) to participants from outside the Diploma Program.

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June 6 – July 27:
Practice-Based Sound Studies for Installation and Performance

with guest lecturers Brandon LaBelle, Åsa Stjerna and Buddhaditya Chattopadhyay

Preparation: Basic Sound Techniques

June 6- July 27 Practice-Based Sound Studies

Concepts and Tools of Sound and Music Design

Engineering & Interdisciplinary Audio Production

Transcultural Music

Site-specific Sound and Installation Practices

Studio and Project Work

Performance Techniques for Composers

* start date depends on enrollment

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• Workshop

30. June 2022

Harmonic Space Orchestra Open Rehearsal

Harmonic Space Orchestra (HSO) is a Berlin-based experimental research and performance collective with Rational Intonation / extended Just Intonation at the core of its practice. Here instrumentalists and interested listeners and invited to hear the open rehearsal process of the collective.

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4. July 2022 – 5. July 2022, 15:00

Singuhr, Unexpected Territories – David Tudor, Workshops with John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein or Michael Johnsen

Workshops with John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein on Space, Resonance and Feedback, using transducers and other electronics, Workshop with Michael Johnson with circuitry. Application required. Participation in only one of the workshops is possible.

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15. July 2022, 10:00

AUDIO LEAKAGE Day-Workshop and Colloquium with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Audio Leakage Community

• Workshop

4. August 2022

Ari Benjamin Meyers: On the Kunsthalle for Music/Recent Works

• Workshop

29. August 2022, 17:00

Apotome – World Tuning Systems with Khyam Allami

Participants will be invited to create their own personalised tuning system and to create generative music using it.

• Seminar

22. December 2022

Intonation, Psychoacoustics, Sound, Composition with Marc Sabat

In this workshop, participants are invited to explore the basic phenomena of psychoacoustics and intonation and to develop individual creative projects experimenting with their manifestations in any form.

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Individual Tutorials

Enroll for a semester of individual tuition with these, and other scholars and artists:

Sound Art and Sound Studies

Brandon LaBelle

Psychoacoustics, Intonation and Composition

Marc Sabat

Sound Art, Music Theory and Composition

Jeremy Woodruff

Sound Synthesis and Spatial Art

Katharina Bévand

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