Malte Giesen heads the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste
The composer and Eisler graduate Malte Giesen took over the management of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste Berlin in June 2021. The traditional forum and laboratory for experimental sound art was founded by Georg Katzer in East Berlin, in 1980.
Since 1980 the Studio at the Akademie der Künste (East) has been a production venue and meeting point for composers and master class students. It has been based at the central academy location in Berlin's Hansaviertel since 2012. The Studio for Electroacoustic Music promotes new initiatives in the field of time-based, performative, digital arts at the interface of sound, music and technology, produces new works, organizes concerts with live electronics and advocates the preservation of the historical repertoire of electroacoustic music. Numerous projects are also regularly realized in cooperation with the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.
Malte Giesen studied composition with Prof. Hanspeter Kyburz and electroacoustic music with Prof. Wolfgang Heiniger at Hanns Eisler. He has been awarded several prizes at international composition competitions, most recently in June 2021 with the renowned composers' advancement award 2021 from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. He has taught electroacoustic music at the Eisler and contemporary improvisation at the HfM Karlsruhe.