Sound Studies and Sonic Art

The international Master’s program Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.) is a three-year, low-residency, part-time postgraduate program is aimed at professionals working in the field of sound wanting to pursue a second degree with a focus on audio-related theory and practice. The program serves to deepen theoretical and practical skills audio-related theory and practice, particularly in cultural studies, musicology, aesthetics, sound art, performant

ce, architecture, design and media production. The sound artist Prof. Daisuke Ishida, Hans Peter Kuhn and scholars Prof. Dr. Sabine Sanio and Prof. Volker Straebel are among the core faculty. The all English Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program also offers lectures from other internationally renown artists and researchers such as David Behrman, Bill Fontana, Brandon LaBelle, Christina Kubisch, Jonathan Sterne, Barry Truax, and Salomé Voegelin. Cooperations with well-known Festivals und Institutions offer our students a wide rage of possibilities for artistic and academic exchange.

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts is run by the Berlin University of the Art’s Berlin Career College, an institute that bundles the school’s efforts in continuing education. We maintain close ties with other UdK institutes and the Audio Communication Group of Technical University Berlin.