In diesem Seminar werden grundlegende Strategien und Techniken der elektroakustischen Komposition vermittelt – mit besonderem Fokus auf Werke für Fixed Media. Die Teilnehmenden lernen den kreativen Umgang mit digitalen Klangmaterialien und deren Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten innerhalb einer Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Als Arbeitsumgebung dient Reaper, eine leistungsstarke DAW, die den Studierenden kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt wird.

This seminar teaches basic strategies and techniques of electroacoustic composition, with a particular focus on works for fixed media. Participants learn how to creatively work with digital sound materials and their design possibilities within a digital audio workstation (DAW). Reaper, a powerful DAW that is made available to students free of charge, serves as the working environment.

The course combines theoretical concepts with practical exercises and covers the following topics, among others:

• Design principles in music: figure-ground perception, continuation, similarity, proximity
• Sound object: analysis and classification of sound structures (morphology)
• Material processing: selection, transformation, and processing of sound material
• Parameter modification: extraction, transposition, filtering, temporal manipulation
• Digital sound synthesis: granular synthesis, transitional synthesis, compression, plugin use
• Montage techniques: editing techniques, crossfading, masking, repetition, density shaping
• Spatial sound design: movement, separation, contouring, and narrative aspects in space

Each week, students work on tasks that build on each other, in which they learn technical skills and reflect on their aesthetic decisions. The aim of the seminar is to develop their own multi-channel electroacoustic composition, which will be presented publicly at the end of the semester (or at the beginning of the following semester) as part of a joint concert.