Name
541 - Music studies in digital spaces - Opportunities and challenges for teachers and higher music education institutions
Date & Time
Thursday, July 30, 2026, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Description
MidiR (Music Studies in the Digital Space) is an over €1.4 million project funded by the German "Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre" at the Trossingen University of Music, that has been running from 2020 to 2025. It aims to embed the cross-cutting theme of ‘digitality’ more firmly in everyday university life and in the curricula of degree programmes. The project comprises four areas of work: reflecting on changes (Thinking:Space), equipping classrooms with innovative technologies (Performance:Space), developing and implementing further training for and with teachers (Teaching:Space), and anchoring digitality as a cross-cutting theme in the university's curricula (Program:Space).Program:Space - Supporting and promoting programme developmentThe requirements, content and organisation of degree programmes are constantly changing. This is also linked to evolving technical possibilities. Based on a high level of expertise in the field of digitally oriented degree programmes (music design, performance, etc.), the university's committees were supported in the development sustainable and innovative study programmes for an increasingly digitized future of artistic practice.Thinking:Space - Reflecting on changeIn Thinking:Space, which is designed as a cross-disciplinary task, transformation processes were systematically observed and accompanied. Digitalisation is changing our perception of music and what we perceive as music. Thinking:Space aims to take different perspectives and relate them to each other. Members of our university - teachers, students and staff - discuss existing and future aspects of digitization.Performance:Space - enabling new teaching and learning formatsSpecialized classrooms with new digital equipment and highly skilled technical and artistic staff are intended to form a broad platform for experimental and innovative university teaching in artistic practice. University teachers, of a wide variety of instruments and musical styles and genres, test and develop new artistic/digital teaching and learning methods in terms of both didactics and content in individual artistic lessons and in artistic ensemble work (including e.g. access to low-latency servers and other telematic technologies of the future).Teaching:Space - Training opportunities for teachers.Central elements of MidiR are the courses for teachers, conceived to enable them to use technology competently in new teaching and learning formats. Core topics include image and sound recording using simple equipment (e.g. camera, lighting and image design) and microphone recording technology. Other topics include instrumental lessons via video conferencing and learning platforms. The courses are part of a certificate programme.The poster summarises the processes and results of the MidiR project and provides a basis for reflection and discussion.
Location Name
210A - Poster Gallery
Session Type
Poster Presentation
Presenter(s)
Mercé Bosch Sanfelix, Philipp Ahner
Poster Board
66