Music as performance, whether musical theater, instrumental music, or sound installations, is the focus of the MA Music, Sound, Performance program. What are the historical premises of such musical performances or stagings? What aesthetic positions are taken? And how do music and sound or composers, performers and producers react to current social challenges or rethink them? The program is deeply committed to interdisciplinary research, combining various perspectives on musical performance from the fields of history, theory, and practice. The teaching faculty is well versed in the current debates of disciplines such as Musicology and Theater Studies, as well as Media, Performance, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies. Students will have contact with the most prolific contemporary artists, curators, and dramaturgs through workshop-series and collaborative projects.
The Music, Sound, Performance MA program was created in response to a growing demand in the job market towards the professionalization of tasks such as curating music and sound. The teaching staff, together with associated researchers and artists are committed to developing research projects on music theater and performance in a global context, sound media, and music epistemologies.
Berlin’s vibrant music scene, with its myriad of musical institutions and its colorful freie szene provides a rich field of inspiration.
In order to qualify for enrollment in the MA program Music, Sound, Performance it is required that students acquired:
For applicants who have obtained their degree at a foreign university or equivalent institution, proof of German language skills must be provided. This can be done by passing the German Language Test for University Admission (DSH) or by providing proof of an equivalent level of knowledge according to the Regulations for the German Language Test for University Admission of Foreign Applicants at Freie Universität Berlin.