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About us The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung is the largest non-university research center for musicology in Germany. Its building is part of the Berlin Kulturforum, next to the Philharmonie and the Sony Center, designed by Edgar Wisniewski after sketches by Hans Scharoun. It is a place of hi

Dr. Benedikt Brilmayer Researcher and curator for bowed and plucked stringed instruments and electronic instruments Since 2017 Researcher and curator at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum SIM PK (bowed and plucked string instruments, electronic instruments) 2015–2017 Research assistant at the Musikinstrum

Klang und Begriff The series Klang und Begriff (Sound and Idea) explores the sound and auditory manifestations of composed music, analyzing them with tools from the fields of music theory, organology and music technology. Previous publications in this series Benedikt Brilmayer (Hrsg.): Electronic Mu

Band 3: Aspekte - Parameter Die erste große zusammenfassende Darstellung der Geschichte musikalischer Interpretation in den letzten beiden Jahrhunderten. Nachdem Band 1 Ästhetik und Ideengeschichte, Band 2 Institutionen und Medien der Interpretation thematisiert haben, befasst sich Band 3 mit der kl

Collection The Musikinstrumenten-Museum of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung collects musical instruments of European art music from the 16th to the 21st century. The museum currently has around 3,600 instruments in its collection, many of which are in playable condition. A good 800 instru

Location and directions The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz is part of the "Kulturforum Berlin", an area of urban development between the Landwehr Canal, Großer Tiergarten and Potsdamer Platz in the Tiergarten quarter of Berlin Mitte. The Institute is located in the l

Archive of Concert Life From 2013 to 2016, the Musicological Documentation department at the SIM carried out a digitization project resulting in the “Archive of Concert Life.” The purpose of this project was to preserve, digitize and analyze records of concert life that have traditionally been regar

Second Viennese School The Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research, SIM) has a research program dedicated to the music of the Second Viennese School. It is concerned largely with publishing the correspondence of the leading members of the school. At the heart of t

Imprint / Rights The provider of this website is Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Ben-Gurion-Straße 1 10785 Berlin Telefon +49 30 254 81-0 kontakt(at)sim.spk-berlin(dot)de Representative The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (SIMPK) is a legally dependen

Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments Participant in the Virtual Concert Hall. Photo: Hans-Joachim Maempel From 2015 to 2018, the SIM conducted the second phase of the project "Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments" (MA 4343/1-2) within the framework of the DFG research uni