SBC x Composition: Composing as a Profession – Communicating as a Profession
Social and Business Communication & Composition & Visual Communication
Irene Kletschke & Saemi Jeong & Jonathan Lauwers & Brigitte Weingart
Registration until 19.4.2026 at: contact_ @klangzeitort.de.

About
As part of the new transdisciplinary INTER program, approximately 6 GWK master’s students and 6 composition students have the opportunity to participate in a collaborative project.
The development and refinement of a unique musical language and artistic personality are at the heart of composition training. But how can you convey your own artistic work and profile to others beyond the compositions themselves?
Students in the Social and Business Communication program learn how to design communication. How can their academic and creative perspectives be applied to contemporary music and translated into various media formats, especially since music itself can already be a form of communication?
In the joint project seminar, students from both study programs discuss their respective forms and formats and gain insight into the perspective of the other professional field. Using the common theme of communication/mediation, they introduce each other to their respective professional environments (e.g., rehearsals, concerts, sound walks, festivals, discourses, media, marketing), thereby acquiring additional expertise in this unfamiliar discipline. Together, the students will develop concrete profiles and communication strategies, e.g., for a world premiere, for the composition students, for the student concert Zoom+Focus (July 19 + February 14), for the MEHRLICHT!MUSIK festival (November 2026), or for existing or newly formed ensembles. The results can be created and produced—including in collaboration with students from the Visual Communication program and presented, for example, as part of the campus tour or at events organized by klangzeitort (see klangzeitort.de) (e.g., exhibitions, release parties…). It is also possible to contribute to a publication currently in development for young composers, sound artists, and performers, which supports them in the transition from their studies to a freelance career.

Time & Dates
Tuesday, 21.4. 2026, 18-21 h / Bundesallee 1-12, Raum 310
Tuesday, 28.4. 2026, 18-21 h / Mierendorffstr. 28, Raum tba
Further dates will be discussed at that time.

Credits
2 SWS, 4 or 5 ECTS for the Master's program.

Dr. Irene Kletschke serves as Executive Coordinator of klangzeitort, the joint institute for new music of the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin. She also organizes the International Summer Academy KlangKunstBühne, a continuing education program offered by the Berlin University of the Arts that is aimed at artists from all disciplines.
She studied music and Theater Studies at Freie Universität Berlin as well as Culture and Media Management at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin, and earned her doctorate in 2010 from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation titled “Klangbilder. Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940).” Since 2006, she has been a research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and teaches seminars on topics including music and film, contemporary music, music theater, landscape composition, and project and cultural management.
In 2020/21, she completed the certificate program “Research Management” at the Continuing Education Center of the FU Berlin. In 2023/24, she was a staff member of the pilot project QuerKlang+. At the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), she is also project director of “FEM*_MUSIC*_Collective for Feminism and Music,” which is funded by the Berlin Program for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities in Research and Teaching (BCP), the UdK Berlin Working Group on Funding for Women, and the UdK Berlin Commissioner for Women and Equal Opportunities (Duration: April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2025).

Saemi Jeong, born in 1992 in Suwon (South Korea), has lived in Berlin since 2018. After completing her master’s degree in composition and electronic music at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, she is currently studying piano in the Artist Training and Pedagogy program at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her work centers on an exploration of subjective and physically grounded perception. In the field of electronic and spatial music, she seeks to develop a practice in which composition, sonic disposition, technical realization, and performative presence emerge as interlocking dimensions of an artistic process. Her working method is also shaped by equal collaboration with artists from various disciplines, notably with choreographer Elvan Tekin (e.g., XÊR, 2024).
She has worked with ensemble mosaik, Ensemble Lachrymae, Ensemble Compas, and as part of the Unruhe collective, of which she is a founding member. In Seoul, she initiated the concert series Series of Combined Music, which she presented at venues including Ilshin Hall. Her works have been presented at the Klangwerkstatt Berlin, at NODES at the Berlin Academy of Arts, at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. For her work, she received the Excellence Award at the ACL Korea Newcomer Concours (2020).

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Weingart has been a professor of media theory at the Institute for Theory and Practice of Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) since 2020.
Previously, she was a professor of media cultural studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (2019–2020) and at the University of Cologne (2014–2019), as well as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Columbia University in New York, among other positions. From 2013 to 2022, she served on the editorial board of the Journal of Media Studies (ZfM) (editor-in-chief since 2019). She currently leads a subproject on the interventionist potential of internet memes within the Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts (SFB 1512).
Research interests: media practices of appropriation, discourse and media history of contagion, genealogy and media aesthetics of fascination, celebrity cultures.
Further information and publications: http://www.brigitte-weingart.de.