Media music practice
Booking workstations
To gain access to the studio workstations, the following steps are required:
- An access card is required. If you already have an access card, for example for the practice rooms, proceed to step 2. Otherwise, you can apply for an access card from .
- To have your access card activated for the sound studios, please send an email to . We require the card ID number, which begins with 9000…
- Once the card has been activated, it must be updated at the update terminal in the Student Service Centre (at the entrance, go through the glass door on the left, then it’s on the right-hand side against the wall).
- Book a slot: Search for ‘Musikstudios’ in stud-IP. Click on the ‘Studio booking’ tab. Select a time slot and book it by clicking the ‘+’ button.
- On the day of your booking, activate your access card at one of the card readers outside A11 (KMS entrance) or inside A9 (staircase leading to the practice rooms).
If you have any questions or if you need special equipment for your booking, please email .
Media music practice
It is a special feature of the music degree programme in Oldenburg that all students, regardless of their main instrument, are required to take a fundamental look at digital music production methods. The area of media music practice thus makes a significant contribution to the contemporary training of prospective music teachers and music researchers, orientated towards current forms and production methods.
In this area, we focus on the practices and forms of knowledge that arise in the interaction with music technologies and are at the same time constitutive for them. Knowledge and practice are understood as complementary and mutually interrelated approaches to music technologies.
We thus understand our subject of music technologies both in the sense of culturally and technologically formed artefacts and in the sense of a knowledge of techniques, a (naturally highly negotiable) manual work of dealing with sound. Against this background, the aim of our teaching and research activities is to reflect on and communicate strategies for aesthetic engagement and artistic practice as well as the use of music technologies in schools.
The academic perspective on music technologies represented here is characterised by a range of thematic and methodological focuses.
Media Music Practice at the University of Oldenburg stands for an approach to music technologies that is decidedly informed and interested in cultural studies and media theory, which on the one hand reflects musical practice as a manifestation and motor of cultural dynamics, but on the other hand also addresses its interrelationship with (media) technical configurations.
It is therefore important to us not to convey production practices without reference to their embedding in specific music-cultural contexts and thus always emphasise the historicity and culturality of media music practice.
In addition, we want to sensitise our research and teaching to the fact that musical practice always helps to shape social and political contexts and structures. Against this background, we do not view music technologies as supposedly "neutral" artefacts, but rather emphasise their "worldliness" (Ismaiel-Wendt), for example by examining them from postcolonial and anti-discriminatory perspectives.
A key thematic focus is on the digital production practices of popular music (producing) as a contemporary manifestation of media music practice.