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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

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Press The press office of the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung provides information about the Institute's research projects as well as events and exhibitions of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum. Please direct requests for interviews or event information to press contact . If you would like to rece

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Data privacy The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (SIM) as a legally dependent institution of the Stiftung Reußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) is committed to handling your personal data in a responsible way and to maintaining transparency about its use. The fo

Systematic Musicology The papers listed here in the area of Systematic Musicology deal not only with the Institute's main topics such as music perception, music transmission, and interpretation, but also with music sociology and methodological topics. Maempel, Hans-Joachim (in press): "Audiobearbeit

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

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

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

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