klangzeitort Institute for New Music
In June, 2003 the Institute for New Music at the University of the Arts Berlin was restructured in cooperation with the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin.
The Institute for New Music is run by both institutions: the University of the Arts provides the staff and infrastructure, the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin shares the running costs. Professors from both institutions contribute a portion of their teaching hours to the Institute. The cooperation also includes the sharing of studios for electroacoustic music, for example, and denotes the integration of teaching, research, projects and comprehensive artistic practice.
"The object of the Institute for New Music's work is the music currently emerging from living composers and sound artists. It is the Institute's task to carry out research in this field and, in cooperation with artists and academics, to create and document a body of knowledge both practical and theoretical, as well as to cultivate discourse. The Institute's events can be of educational benefit to students of the Berlin music academies, but its events and publications are also aimed at a broader interested audience.
The Institute's workshops should therefore enable the participating artists to gain practical knowledge through experiments and direct practical work as well as observation, and also give participating academics the opportunity of gaining theoretical knowledge and/or verifying or refuting the same."
"Lectures, seminars and symposia introduce current questions of interpretation and composition to interested audiences and students. The Institute's interdisciplinary approach is apparent here.
The Institute organises performances of new music, and in particular initiates productions which are of interest within the framework of the Institute's main focus of research. Furthermore, the Institute should establish itself as a forum for personal exchange between artists and academics."
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