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Music Production Course Berlin — 12 Weeks. 7 Working Artists. Your Music, From Scratch to Stage.
Berlin School of Sound is an experimental, artist-run music school in Berlin. With its 12-week Make Some Waves semestral course in music production and sound art, it offers one of the best entry points into the world of electronic music for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Make Some Waves is Berlin School of Sound’s flagship music production course — a 12-week semester program covering sound design, recording studio work, and electronic music production from the ground up.
Over 12 weeks, you’ll move through sound art, hands-on Ableton Live production, modular synthesis, game sound design, audiovisual performance, and mixing and mastering — each session taught by a different working artist from Berlin’s scene, using our own recording studio and equipment. This is a hands-on course: every session pairs a short demonstration with real time on the instruments and software you’re learning.
You won’t study music from the outside. You’ll make it, perform it, and present it live at a final concert at the end of the semester.
3 groups available · 7–10 students per group · 48 hours total
Choose your group
Group 1 — Mondays · 17:30–21:30
Group 2 — Tuesdays · 17:30–21:30
Group 3 — Wednesdays · 17:30–21:30
12 sessions × 4 hours = 48 hours per group, plus the final concert · Starting 14 September 2026
By the end of this music production course you will:
→ Have created original music and sound art compositions
→ Know how to record, edit and produce in Pro Tools and Ableton Live
→ Have built your own beat and a live set from your own samples
→ Know how to operate modular synthesizers and electronic instruments
→ Understand music production, mixing, and mastering fundamentals
→ Have worked with game sound design tools — FMOD, Wwise, Unreal Engine
→ Have performed your work live in front of an audience
→ Have a portfolio you can actually show people
Course Structure
Sessions 1–2 — Sound Editing Foundations in Pro Tools
Instructor: Antje Vowinckel
Basic DAW operation in Pro Tools. Hands-on introduction to using studio microphones — setup, placement, and technique. Recording and editing your own voice and sound material. Introduction to experimental composition and sound design — the raw samples you record here become the material you’ll build tracks from in later sessions.
Session 3 — Ableton Live Fundamentals
Instructor: RETHE
Everyone works on their own laptop with an official Ableton Live Lite license. We start with installing and setting up Ableton on your own machine, then move into a hands-on introduction to the software — tracks, MIDI, sampling, the interface — so that by the end of the session, you’re comfortable navigating Ableton on your own.
Session 4 — Composing With Your Own Samples
Instructor: Vojto Monteur
Using the sounds you recorded with Antje in Sessions 1–2, you’ll build your first track in Ableton Live — combining your own samples with Ableton’s built-in instruments. A real creative process, start to finish.
Session 5 — Ableton Live: Build Your Own Beat
Instructor: RETHE
Hands-on beat-making using the samples you’ve gathered throughout the course so far. By the end of this session, you’ll have a beat of your own.
Session 6 — Live Performance Basics
Instructor: Berlin School of Sound faculty
A hands-on tour of every instrument in the school — synthesizers, Korg Monotribe, Elektron Digitakt as a sequencer, MIDI routed into the modular system. Try combinations, jam, and start to understand how these instruments talk to each other in a live setting.
Sessions 7–8 — Modular Synthesis
Instructor: Stéphane Lefrançois
Two hands-on sessions at Stéphane’s studio. Patch cables, signal routing, oscillators, filters, envelope generators. Building your first ambient and drone compositions, then moving into cross-modulation, feedback loops, and generative sequencing.
Session 9 — Finishing Your Project + Music Harmony Basics
Instructor: Berlin School of Sound faculty
Dedicated studio time to bring your composition together, with guidance to make sure every student has something finished to build on. Includes an introduction to basic music harmony — scales, chords, and how they apply to what you’re producing.
Session 10 — Audiovisual Installation & Performance
Instructor: Georg Werner
Fundamentals of audiovisual installation art. Spatial sound design for gallery spaces. Performance art with sound. Body, voice, and space in performance.
Session 11 — Game Audio & Interactive Sound
Instructor: Dario Beckmann
Music and sound design for games — FMOD, Unreal Engine, Wwise. Interactive audio design and adaptive music systems. Berlin School of Sound is Germany’s only private Wwise Partner School.
Session 12 — Mixing & Mastering + Final Concert
Instructor: Henning Grambow
Mixing and mastering fundamentals applied to your own composition. The session leads directly into the final concert — your work performed live in front of an audience: friends, family, Berlin’s music community. This is what the semester has been building toward.
Your Final Project
Each student creates:
→ A 5–10 minute sound composition or installation
→ Written documentation of the creative process
→ A short presentation of concept and methodology
→ A technical rider for live performance (if applicable)
What’s included
- 48 hours of hands-on instruction across 12 sessions, plus the final concert
- 7 working Berlin artists as instructors
- Maximum 10 participants per group
- Official Ableton Live Lite license included
- Access to our recording studio, modular synthesizer systems, recording equipment, field recording devices, microphones, mixing desk, monitors, turntables and DJ equipment
- Group critiques and peer feedback sessions
- Public final concert at ACUD Kunsthaus (exact venue/room confirmed closer to the date)
- Certificate of completion
What you need to bring
→ Your own laptop
→ Your own headphones (professional recommended)
→ A notebook
→ Openness to experiment and collaborate
→ Basic English (for technical instructions)
No music production experience required.
Pricing
€1,300
Flexible payment options available: pay 50:50 (first half at the start, second half after Session 6), or spread the cost with PayPal Pay Later / installments.
Details
📅 Starting 14 September 2026 · 12 weeks
⏰ 17:30–21:30 · Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday
📍 ACUD Kunsthaus, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin-Mitte
👥 3 groups · max 10 participants each
🌍 English
🎓 No prior experience needed
Questions?
Write to us at makesomewaves@berlinschoolofsound.com — we reply within 24 hours.