Search - Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Schönberg24 "Schönberg is dead", composer and conductor Pierre Boulez proclaimed in 1951. Despite such prophecies of doom, Schönberg's compositional and theoretical work continues to attract a great deal of attention from performers, contemporary composers, and audiences alike. In three series of ev

Johann Joachim Quantz Musician - Pedagogue - Instrument Maker 8 September 2023 to 11 February 2024 "Quantz is the god of music" - this is how Crown Prince Frederick raved about his flute teacher in a letter to his sister Wilhelmine von Bayreuth in 1732. And indeed, the flutist and composer Johann Jo

Studio Technology Studio technology accounts for a large part of the technical equipment used in music transmission, including sound transducers (e.g., microphones and loudspeakers); equipment for switching, mixing, distributing, transmitting and amplifying audio signals (e.g., patch panels, mixing

Flavia Hennig, M.A. Higher Education 04/2018–09/2023 MA studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin: Musicology 09/2016–01/2017 Erasmus semester in France at the Université Lumière Lyon 2: Musicology 10/2014–08/2018 BA studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin: core subject Musicology, second su

Sound and Vision Experience Lab Large-screen monitor and loudspeaker of the SV_XL in the working model Sound & Vision Experience Lab The project Sound & Vision Experience Lab (SV_XL) evolved from the DFG-funded project "Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments". It is funded by the board o

Tours Public tours with sound samples Saturday 11 a.m. and Thursday 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. Tour fee: 3 euros, plus museum admission Group tours for children, teens, secondary-school students, university students and adults can be arranged by prior appointment. Cost: Guided tours for kindergarten groups, s

Sound design and aesthetics Those involved in the transmission of music must make decisions that affect the reproduction of music in general and the reproduction of its sound, in particular. When reproducing an original music performance, one can distinguish three objectives in relation to sound aes

Music Transmission The term “music transmission” covers all processes involved in the conveyance of musical sound across large distances or temporal intervals. This includes processes for recording, storing, editing, conducting and playing back music. On the one hand, music transmission relies on te

Music Perception At the SIM, experimental studies of questions involving the perception of music are a tradition that goes back to Hans-Peter Reinecke, the founder of Department III (then named the Department of Acoustics and Music Psychology) and later the institute’s director. Reinecke examined di

Discology SIM pursues discology research based on the premise that radio, records and compact discs are not just media for transmitting and storing music but, like musical instruments, are media of music itself. Edison cylinder from the sound recording collection of the SIMPK library. Photograph by