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Demo – interactive, spatial audio installation Listening station of the demo with seven listening positions. Photo: Claudia Stirnat At SysMus22 , Claudia Stirnat presented a demo of an interactive, spatial audio installation using dynamic binaural synthesis. After a short introduction, she showed a

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

Highlights of the Exhibition One of the highlights of the display collection is a nearly complete set of wind instruments used by the town pipers of Naumburg, Germany, in around 1600. Other gems of the collection include the famous Bach harpsichord (the original as well as later replicas), transvers

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

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

PD Dr. Hans-Joachim Maempel CV Since 2012 Head of Department III Acoustics and Music Technology | Studio Facilites and IT of the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (State Institute for Music Research Prussian Heritage Foundation) 1993-2011 Freelance recording producer an

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

Multiperspectivity On the Nature of Research at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (SIM) is the largest non-university research institution for musicology in Germany. The Institute encompasses a library and a musical instruments museum. The coexist

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Guided tours, concerts, behind-the-scenes tours, silent films, late-night special Theme of the Long Night 2026: Crime in Berlin Programme at the Musical Instrument Museum 6 pm Pink Panther: We Solve the Case – Concert for children and families 7 pm and 8 pm Forgeries, scandals and criminal tricks Gu