Media music practice
Booking workstations
The following steps are necessary to gain access to the studio workstations:
- An access card is required. If you already have an access card, e.g. for the practice rooms, continue with step 2, otherwise you can apply for an access card from .
- To have the access card for the recording studios activated, send an email to . We need the card ID number which starts with 9000....
- After activation, the card must be updated at the update terminal in the Student Service Centre(at the entrance on the left through the glass door, then on the right side on the wall).
- Book an appointment: Search for "music studios" in stud-IP. Click on the "Studio booking" tab. Select time slot and book with the +.
- On the day of booking, activate the access card at one of the readers in front of A11 (KMS entrance) or in A9 (entrance to the practice rooms).
If you have any questions or if you need special equipment on the day, please send an email to .
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.
Media Production
Welcome to our media production site. We offer a bright spectrum of seminars and courses. Examples: professional digital and analog music production, experimental and performative usage of multimedia- and music technologies. Our teaching subjects are connected to BA/MA modules (Musikpraxis, Didaktik, Multimedia...) at the institute of music. With more than forty years of experience (history-link below) we emphasize on close cooperation with our students in terms of quality in- and output. Our subjects range from beginners courses to professional highend audio- and music production. BA and MA Exams include topics like computers in music education, digitally based composition techniques, computer notation, analog and digital djing, vjing, sounddesign, digital audioformats, loudness war, classical-pop-rock-electronic-hiphop etc. production, acapella, webbased cooperation and many more.
Medienmusikpraxis is part of our BA/MA modules and we are cooperating internally, externally and also on an international basis.