The experimental dance music video Catharsis by Lydia Ramos explores the swansong theme – the beautiful and yet melancholy dance shortly before death.

In this video, the song of the same name by Valentin Ruckebier, a student in Prof. Oliver Schneller’s composition class, is given a new dimension of interpretation through Yannick Benavides’s audi…
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What am I? Who are you? Are you who you pretend to be or is that defined by others? Can you influence how you are perceived and are you what you are perceived as being? Or are you really who you think…
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The composition Cirque by Jannis Carbotta combines field recordings, sound recordings, and sounds of electromagnetic fields with the sounds of modular synthesizers and acoustic instruments.
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Winds of Home is a full-length documentary by Ayunga Khiyad, who was born in the Mongolian part of China and during the course of the film travels to what he regards as his homeland, Mongolia, …
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The audiovisual implementation of the music video for Painkiller by the Düsseldorf band Fil der Protagonist was produced by Yannick Benavides in 2020.

Do those who make music have to take an explicitly political stance? Are they responsible for how the audience perceives their messages? Is it their fault if parts of their audience do not recognize i…
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The audiovisual project Face by Suhyun Park and Yuni Hwang, a student of the Art Academy Düsseldorf, use artistic means to critically question the concept of race.
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The small town of Chiatura is located in a valley in the middle of Georgia. Here manganese ore mining is the primary industry and the town’s most striking feature is a network of dangling cable cars…
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Based on its more modern musical form and notation, this piece attempts to keep the agogic shifting of the lighting and set design as minimalistic as possible in order to create a feeling of experimen…
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Kazbekistan – Eine Reise durch die Plattenbausteppe (Kazbekistan – A Journey Through the Plattenbau Steppe, or flatlands of prefab tower blocks) is a blend of travel journal and fiction, pa…
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Kazbekistan – Die leuchtende Steppe (Kazbekistan – The Radiant Steppe) is a video work based on a journey to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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Tim Schmiedner wrote a re-score for the film Dans les bois, shot by six students from the Ecole des Nouvelles Images and an entry in the 2020 European Talent Award competition.
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The ban on social contact in response to the coronavirus outbreak has resulted in unusual music projects. This is how this recording of Ravel’s Boléro was made, played by the Essen Philharmo…
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Leon Brückner, who is studying Music and Media with a Media Composition concentration, took advantage of winning the main prize at the European Talent Award, a day recording with the WDR Funkhaus Orc…
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The installation a synchronous musician describes the simultaneously asynchronous and synchronous relationship between a metronome and a person playing snare drum. Alexander Borowski explores t…
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The Virtual Reality soundwalk Blind Spot plays with spatial and acoustic paradoxes that reveal our – often deceptive – perception.
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The “tic concert” My Body Does That to Me by Yale Sevis is concerned with the question of controlling the individual through the body and mind.
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Stadtrausch is the name of Daniel Rheinbay’s final project in the Media Composition major concentration. Supported by students Paul Schön (overall artistic direction, set design, media de…
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The light and sound installation To Probe Is to Interact by Matthias Erdmann explores the wave-particle dualism in quantum mechanics.
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The piece Pausing for two flutes, electronic tape and video by Leonie Strecker explores the question how continuous consciousness can be rendered experienceable in a musical and abstract manner. <br /…
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(NDM) by Vincent Stange was a bachelor’s degree exam project for the Visual Music. The work examines individual decision-making spaces, the influence of community and interaction with the aud…
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The scores for the European Talent Competition at Soundtrack_Cologne show how different music or sound changes the effect of film images. In 2019 it was the task of entrants to create the narration an…
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For the 2019 fireworks, students majoring in Media Composition composed and produced fireworks music to round off the TV experience.
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As part of the course “Image Composition and Rhythm” by Institute of Music and Media lecturer Christian Schäfer, music visualization is treated using forms of musical notation lying outside our t…
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The phenomenon of the equinox, which takes place twice a year was illustrated by Joan Miro in his 1966 painting Equinox, which in turn inspired Toru Takemitsu to write his piece with the same name for…
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In this music video, the song of the same name by Valentin Ruckebier, a student in Prof. Oliver Schneller’s composition class, is given a new interpretational dimension through Yannick Benavides’s…
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Within the framework of her bachelor’s thesis, IMM student Magdalena Treutwein developed poems, written in executable code (in the Brainfuck programming language).
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The trailer by IMM student Laura Greco, which was created as part of the “Stille Post” Exhibition in 2019, provides insight into this unusual study assignment.
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As part of the Young Artists Bayreuth Festival, IMM students produced a CD with the Ukrainian Youth Orchestra under the direction of conductor Oksana Lyniv. Lyniv founded the élite national orchestra…
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He set off with an ice hockey stick, a cassette recorder and two microphones. Then things were rubbed, scratched, pound on and ? recorded. A fictional radio play by Joseph Baader.
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For their sound design for the film Miel Bleu the students Celia Ruiz Artacho (Sound Design) and Ben Winkler (Film Music) were awarded the two main prizes at the 2018 European Talent Award.
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The video installation Doxá by Laura Rizzo is concerned with the topic of musical shadows. As a rule, visual, i.e., visible shadows require a real object standing in a space.
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As part of the course “Image Composition and Rhythm” by Institute of Music and Media lecturer Christian Schäfer, music visualization is treated using forms of musical notation lying outside our t…
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Dressed in Music is a project completed by Sebastian Heidelberg and Lambert Windges for their Media Composition major. In the project they created two compositions to accompany the catwalk for …
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Tractatus Zweiter Ordnung (Second-Order Treatise) by Sebastian Heidelberg is an audio collage of speeches and lectures by the Austrian scholar and philosopher Heinz von Foerster.
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With the aid of motion capture technology, the interactive installation “Spielraum” by Sebastian Fecke Diaz makes it possible to investigate (im)moral texts and deconstruct them using granular syn…
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Suhyun Park describes her interactive installation Eins & Viel [One & Much] as a “granular playground consisting of rice, staples, instruction cards, and algorithm.”
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In the interactive installation hörst du mich? by Laurenz Ulrich either collages of video and sound recordings merge into opaque chaos or visitors are offered new perspectives by means of extending a…
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The sound and light installation by Lambert Windges takes the emergence, presence and disappearance of varying circumstances in a polyrhythmic structure as its theme. 
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Gerrit Kress, student at IMM, has produced, recorded and mixed three songs of the electro rock band Liquid Lightnin from Düsseldorf for his Audio 2 exam.
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In October 2018 a workshop on the topic of piano production was conducted within the framework of the master’s program Artistic Music Production (Major: Classical Acoustic Music Production) in the T…
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In August 2017, under the baton of Florian Helgath, the ChorWerk Ruhr presented the Officium Defunctorum by Thomás Luis de Victoria at the Zeche Zollern in Dortmund.
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The radio piece Der Götterbote [The Divine Messenger] is based on a recorded conversation with street poet Timo Dege at the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin in the summer of 2014.
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A very busy railway station. In the middle of a somewhat unusual conversation, in which several people are involved. Among them is Dennis.
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Distant lights. Repressed feelings. Between delirium and bitter reality, a man tries to get his life into balance.
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The feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong—as if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you
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In June of 2018 IMM student Tim Abramczik visited the Algolit collective in Brussels. The result was a feature 11:11 minutes in length about this working group. 
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The audio piece Silence and Noise by Jannis Hannover focuses on the tonality of various social milieus. 
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In the audio feature Von drinnen und draußen Jannis Carbotta uses language and sound recordings to document the significance a club for electronic dance music can have for those involved.
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In February 2017 the students Lukas Hierl and Daniel Przemus recorded the girls choir of the Essen Cathedral under the direction of Prof. Raimund Wippermann. 
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As part of the EIGHT BRIDGES | Musik für Köln two recordings of significant works by this year's Composer in Residence, Unsuk Chin, were made on May 1 and 2, 2017. 
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What is automatic and what do we do automatically? Testpublikum is a performance in a two-room installation by Music and Media major Juliane Blum.
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In Yannick Benavides’ thematically modular Laute Post performance, Mascha Corman and Thea Soti discuss the dramaturgical content of erotic films and how this subject matter is treated.
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In his #instantfiltercoffee live performance, Joseph Baader records and loops the noises of preparing instant coffee. A snapshot of the finished cup of coffee is posted directly on Instagram.
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The installation Transformation in Sync by Vincent Stange involves the connection and separateness of rooms. The auditory and visual levels are important in this installation. 
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The Moiré Patterns installation by Jannis Carbotta involves the moiré effect. In the installation the effect is reconstructed analogously and made perceivable in the form of light and sound.
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The Raumbewegungen project by Jannis Hannover is concerned with the sonification of environmental data. The result is an audio-visual interaction between electronic, abstract sounds and video.
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The audiovisual installation they don’t need repair by Valentin Dudeck establishes a link between object and sound.
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In the VR production Relativity by Leon Eckard the public can hear hip-hop beats against shifting polyrhythms. This also shifts the sense of the downbeat as well as the type of meter. 
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Participants in the Focus installation by Christoph Beck attempt to focus their attention on a mantra in front of them.
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The self-portrait of Rebecca Himmerich contains a series of scenes which do not follow a plot actions in sequence, No story is told.
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In his audio-visual composition Geoforms, Thomas Gärtner links acoustic and visual characteristics of squares, circles and triangles. 
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Etüdion is an interactive media installation by Jonas Scheler, which was prepared in 2017 as his final exam piece in the Visual Music major concentration.
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The visual music film Nadelarbeit III [Needlework] by IMM student Magdalena Treutwein was prepared as an exam piece in the Visual Music major concentration.
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The interactive installation berührt - geführt seeks to make it possible to experience the invisible spirals of everyday life and its habitual routines.
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Students majoring in Music and Audiovisual Media again produced the music broadcast music@studio1. 
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The film music for the stop-motion animated film William and D-I6 was created as a project in the Media Composition major.
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“Important live albums in the history of German pop music”: That was the theme of the first installment of the Lieblingsplatte Festival at Düsseldorf’s Kulturzentrum Zakk in December 2016.
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Secret Hitler ist der Titel des Abschlussprojektes im Vertiefungsmodul Musikinformatik von IMM-Student Sebastian Heidelberg, betreut durch Julian Rohrhuber und Markus Schmickler.
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Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony was performed under the baton of Prof. Rüdiger Bohn and coordinated by the three sound technicians.
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The student Michael Kemkes is studying data transmission via audio signals as part of his thesis in the advanced-level

Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor was performed at the Partikasaal auditorium as part of a chamber music production.
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The music and media major Verena Hentschel incorporated her own ideas in creating the experimental music video This is why I don't like lyrics in music.
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For IMM student Armin Badde, who was the sound engineer for the project, the project was his final exam in the advanced-level Classical Music Production module.
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As part of the upper-level Classical Music Recording module of Prof. Dagmar Birwe collaboration with selected chamber music ensembles of the Robert Schumann Hochschule will  
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Raffael Seyfried’s film score for the 25-minute film The Merchant is a project in the Media Composition major. Written and staged by Music and Media major Franz Wüstenberg, the film tells of…
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The audiovisual performance for string bass solo, Brain Sensing Music, by Valentin Link visualizes the brain activity of the player during a freely improvised music performance.
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VeeMee is an interactive mirror by Magdalena Sojka, which translates the utterances of the audience into sounds and images and projects these back. 
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As in every year, in 2016 a major opera production took place at Düsseldorf’s Robert Schumann Hochschule in collaboration with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. 
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In the electronic music piece This is why I don’t like lyrics in music, Music and Media student Verena Hentschel explores her aversion for lyrics in music pieces both mu…
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In his composition Overture to the Flying Dutchman as sight-read by a bad spa orchestra at 7 in the morning by the fountain Paul Hindemith created a musical parody of Wagner’s grand…
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Within the framework of the project module in the Music Productionmajor concentration, Music and Media bachelor student Simon Busch realized recordings with the Fries Nuss…
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The music for the sensational marionette film Cabaret Crusades – The Secrets of Karbalaa by the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky was developed by the students Raffael Seyfried (Music and Media) an…
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David Füsgen went in search of ways to transfer music into the language of the camera in his work WUT, FREUDE, TRAUER [RAGE, JOY, MOURNING].
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The Quad² project by Lucas Grey is an interactive and audiovisual space installation in surround sound.
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The visual music film Kammermusik is an audiovisual portrait of a building by Visual Music artist Katharina Blanken.
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How can artistically shaped worlds of images and the live performance of a band be combined into a music video?
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Faces is an audiovisual room installation based on an Android app for smartphones and tablet PCs by IMM-Student Aaron Jablonski.
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The installation and composition WRESTLING! by Milan Schell is an audiovisual music and fight simulation staged in space. 
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The sound sculpture Eigendynamik by Lukas Reichert portrays a dynamic system created by simulated feedback. 
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Doppelpendelmusik, an audiovisual installation by Johannes Leppkes, deals with seeing and hearing movement in space. 
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The study Shifting by Julian Priessen is comprised of experimental video clips, the content of which is made up of three parts: video material, image structure and audio material.
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Patrick Arnold  made the track We Float Around (And Hang Out On Clouds) by Egokind visible in his Visual Music clip. 
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2052. A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years is a description of the tendency of global development by Jørgen Randers.
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In the studio and exhibition space Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Florian Zeeh presented his installation more

The interactive and audiovisual installation av@ar puts the focus of the experience on the relationship between the individual person and their medial reflection.
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Souvenir Automat is a Visual Music study by Milan Schell. It concerns the attempt to visually support the musical development of tension in the student's own composition.&…
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As part of his final examination project Roland Nebe projected high resolution visuals for the live concert of the Cologne hardcore/punk/electro/jazz band Monophonist. 
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The next stage of projection mapping was researched by Dipl.-Ing. Gerrit Kress in his final year project Projection Mapping onto moving objects.
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The street is not just a transportation route but also a collective archive. A wide range of textual forms mutually interact on the street: things which are illegible or can barely be read, scrawled t…
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In this portrait, the dancer Yana Novotorova talks about the role dance plays in her life and the philosophy of co…
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