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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

Jazz at the MIM Start: 7 p.m., free admission Berlin's cultural diversity is also reflected in the jazz scene. For twenty years, the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research has provided a venue for Berlin's many modern jazz ensembles. The "Jazz at the MIM" series is organ

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

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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

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

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

Holdings and focal points The focus of our collecting and research activities is aligned with the projects conducted at the Institute on music history, music theory, instrumentology, and systematic musicology. Photocopy collection of the SIMPK. Reprography of musical sources produced between 1917 an