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Information about our new Master's program „Komposition mit Neuen Medien“ as well as concerts, activities, and details about the program and staff will be available here soon.

The eem Studio is located in rooms MU.27 & MU.28 of the Gebäude Mozartareal.

In the studio, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jason Thorpe Buchanan, the Hochschule continues a tradition of producing electronic music, established in the early 1970s by Prof. Bertold Hummel (Composition) and Prof. Werner Berndsen (recording studio), using state-of-the-art technical means and the following objectives:

• Searching for possibilities of altered aesthetic perception based on constantly evolving hardware and software
• Experiments with audio, video, intermediality, and new media
• Interactivity with musicians using wearables, gestural tracking, and other state-of-the-art hardware and software techniques.
• Research in the field of altered compositional techniques through software-driven algorithmic processes
• Artistic research in the field of live concert forms by incorporating the aforementioned interactions between performer and computer on stage
• Experience with multi-channel technology, Ambisonics, live audio and video processing, generative video, multiple projection screens, and interactive lighting
• Innovative studies in the field of analyzing traditional sounds as a basis for a more in-depth understanding of the inner structures of sound
• Developments in the field of microtonal tunings and inharmonic spectra

Aesthetic and content planning, technical conception, and teaching are supervised by Prof. Dr. Jason Thorpe Buchanan and Hannes Brugger, who work at the forefront of intermedial composition and technology.

(Updated: 15. Oktober 2025)