The document describes a four-day workshop titled 'Mobile Music Making' to be held in Berlin from August 4-7, 2014, focusing on creating music with mobile apps for professionals and enthusiasts. Led by Matthias Krebs, the workshop emphasizes experimentation and collaboration, culminating in a public performance. Participants will have access to a variety of devices and are encouraged to engage in interactive exchanges regarding innovative music creation methods.

1. Website URL: http://www.udk-berlin.de/sites/sommerkurse/content/2014_courses/music/mobile_music_making/index_eng.html
App Music:
Mobile Music Making for Experts
With Matthias Krebs
August 4th
– August 7th
, 2014
Berlin Summer University of the Arts
A 4-day workshop on music making with mobile apps including experimentation,
composition, production and performance. A creative space for enthusiasts,
sound artists, music technologists and professional musicians exploring
inspiration and creativity. Findings and results culminate in a final concert.
For quite a while now,
making music with apps on
smartphones and tablets has
been more than simply a
novelty. Some excellent
music apps like Audiobus,
TC-11, SECTOR, Beatsurfing,
Mitosynth, Beatmaker2,
Nave and many more offer
innovative digital musical
instruments and powerful
production tools to users.
These apps already allow the creation of remarkable musical results, as
demonstrated by serious album productions and an increasing number of stage
performances in recent years.
The workshop is conceived as a
composition and sound workshop in the
form of an experimental laboratory; a
creative space for exchange and new
discoveries in the multifaceted
cornucopia of available apps and
hardware. Enthusiasts, experts and
interested parties from all backgrounds
are therefore invited to participate in
the collaborative investigation of and
experimentation with sound, music and
performance – a collective ‘learning by
doing’ approach.
Project groups will organically develop performances, productions and/or
composition pieces over the course of the workshop. The (partial) results of the
interactive creative activities will be presented in a public performance at the c-
base.

2. Website URL: http://www.udk-berlin.de/sites/sommerkurse/content/2014_courses/music/mobile_music_making/index_eng.html
Participants
The workshop is aimed at enthusiasts,
professional musicians, sound artists and
music technologists with advanced
experience creating music with apps. This is
a workshop for those who are seeking an
interactive exchange with others with regard
to new musical forms, new apps, new
hardware technology and innovative,
expressive methods of sound making,
performance and collaboration. Interested
parties of all disciplines are encouraged to
participate; diverse and varied backgrounds
often bring valuable eclectic elements into
the collaborative mix.
Participants may certainly play their own
devices (iOS/android/Win8) during the
workshop, however a large and varied
supply of additional devices, peripheral
equipment and amplifiers will also be provided. Participants are thus encouraged
to mix, match, integrate, collaborate and experiment with a multitude of devices
and apps during the course.
Matthias Krebs is a professional app musician, physicist,
opera singer, multi instrumentalist and scientist. For many
years now, he has also been active in theater production as a
sound artist and composer. He founded the DigiEnsemble Berlin
in 2010. Today it is the first professional music ensemble that
regularly performs with mobile apps on physical stages
(http://digiensemble.de).
date: August 4th-August 7th 2014
place: UdK Berlin, Bundesallee 1-12
fee: 350 €
No. of participants: 6 to 10
language: English
application deadline: July 8th 2014
Online registration: www.udk-berlin.de/summer-courses
*the photos were taken from the 2013 course