Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics
The Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) is a multidisciplinary research center within the Graz University of Music and Dramatic Arts (Austria).
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[edit] Research and Development
Research activities are concentrated mainly in digital signal processing, audio engineering, and psycho acoustics, eg. projects in analysis and syntheses of sound and loudness perception.
- Recording- and Reproduction technology
- Signal Processing, Sound Analysis and Synthesis
- Realtime Software
- Internet Archive of Electronic Music
[edit] Art Production
IEM provides technology and know-how to composers and musicians in the creation and realization of their works. Since 1990, IEM has collaborated with guest artists (including Olga Neuwirth, Peter Ablinger, Bernhard Lang) in the production and performance of more than 80 new compositions. In this process, many international partnerships have been established.
- Lost Highway Olga Neuwirth's Opera adaption of the David Lynch Film
[edit] Education
At IEM, compositions students are trained in musical acoustics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, and real-time systems. The institute has established an audio engineering curriculum in collaboration with the Graz University of Technology. The most important aspects of these courses is to bring technology and artistic creativity closer together.
[edit] Electrical Engineering / Sound Engineering
Bachelor/Master study in cooperation with the Graz University of Technology
[edit] Musicology
Bachelor/Master study in cooperation with the University of Graz
[edit] Composition - Computer Music
In close collaboration with the Institute of Composition, Music Theory and Conducting (Institute 1) of the Graz University of Music and Dramatic Arts
[edit] Publications
the IEM publishes the series "Contributions to Electronic Music".
[edit] Open Source
The IEM is involved in several Open Source projects. It is currently hosting the main community portal and the mailing-lists for Pure Data
[edit] Articles
- Ritsch, Winfried and IOhannes Zmölnig. “IEM — Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (Graz).” eContact! 11.3 — Logiciels audio « open source » / Open Source for Audio Application (September 2009).
