Studio for Electronic Music (Salzburg)
The Studio for Electronic Music (SEM) in Salzburg is part of the Mozarteum . It is one of the oldest electronic music studios in the world.
history
The studio was founded in 1958 by Eberhard Preußner with the help of the Philips group . Irmfried Radauer took over the management . The first studio composition was created for the Salzburg Festival, Job . Composers such as Josef Maria Horváth and Andor Losonczy worked together with the electronic music studio in the following years. In 1971, the Institute for Basic Music Research tried to continue its work professionally. Many original recordings were, however, overwritten or destroyed in the 1960s. The studio staff now oriented their work to Pierre Schaeffer and his Groupe de recherches musicales . Works that were composed on site during this time came among others. a. for performance at the World New Music Days of the International Society for New Music . Particularly committed composers were Klaus Ager , Dieter Lehnhoff , Werner Raditschnig and Martin Schwarzenlander . In 1977, the music festival aspects Salzburg developed around the studio , to which personalities such as François Bayle , Luc Ferrari , Mauricio Kagel , Dieter Kaufmann , Bernard Parmegiani and Iannis Xenakis were invited. The studio work was expanded to include computer music and Metaboles III was the first Austrian computer music piece to be presented at the Styrian Autumn . The sound installation Klangmobile was created in cooperation with the Austrian Ensemble for New Music and has been realized several times. From 1979 to 1996 Werner Raditschnig headed a computer music studio in Salzburg, which was merged with the electronic studio in 1996 by André Ruschkowski . In 2006 Achim Bornhöft took over the management of the studio. In the same year the move to Mirabellplatz in Salzburg took place.