HfM Mainz / Master Sound Art-Composition

Mainz University of Music at Johannes Gutenberg University is the only music university in Germany to offer a degree program in Sound Art-Composition. This master's program is aimed equally at musicians and artists. Since 2019, it has also been possible for '"Meisterschüler" students to study in the third stage of their studies.
The program is based on the latest developments in an intermediate understanding of music and art. Here, trends in new music, electronic composition, sound art, audiovisual art, radio art and Ars Acustica are brought together into a thematic unit. Compositional approaches are explored and developed at the highest artistic level using spatial and intermediate compositional strategies.
This includes the development of spatial sound and sound installations as well as performative concepts and media representations.

Students of this program have won numerous prizes New York Artist Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, numerous residencies, including Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Tokyo Wonder Site and Sapporo. They have participated in exhibitions at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt, Art Basel, OPENING Trier (three times) and Sayner Hütte 2025 among others. The sound and light installation ‘resonate’ was shown at the Luminale Festival in Frankfurt and subsequently in the cube of the ZKM Karlsruhe at the exhibition "Sound Art" 2012/13.
The program is led by Prof. Peter Kiefer and Prof. Stefan Fricke.
Other lecturers included Andres Bosshard, Prof. Dr. Salomé Voegelin and guest professors Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Jacob Kirkegaard, Prof. Bernhard Leitner, Prof. Miya Masaoka, Prof. Dr. Florian Dombois, Prof. Alvin Curran and Kaspar König.

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