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
Currently in development, and beginning in 2025
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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
Other example courses:
Sound Tools: Mics, Amps Mixers and basic Software
Sounding Art
June 5th – July 30th
Audio Production Practices
Modular Synthesis, Circuitry Building and Sound Design
Composition Through Performance
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CRASH!
Networked Systems Ensemble
Starting 2025
Indian Music Transformation course from Music Temple
Starting 2026
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
Tuition fees
Coached Ensembles and Clubs | 120€ per month |
Courses* | from 900 – 1050€ per course |
Studio Project course (includes project work in the recording studio) | please get in touch with us! |
Individual Tutorials (90 minutes) | 160€ per session or 600€ per month for weekly mentorship |
Workshops, Seminars and Guest Talks | individually priced (see events page) |
*varies depending on teachers and guests involved and workshops or masterclasses offered!