We live in an age of information. Never before has so much information been produced, and never before has obtaining quick access to it been so easy. Information is everywhere—and it’s often said that we’re dealing with a flood of it. At the same time, untold quantities of information are lost on a daily basis, with much content being ephemeral and/or generated only for the sake of a brief moment. Thereafter, it disappears into the infinite depths of the Internet.

On 16 October 2019, the project spiel|macht|t|raum will dedicate the hall used by the Centre for Further Education to a new source of inspiration for the 2019/20 academic year: Erna Kremer, a pianist and former instructor at our institution.

Since the dawn of the 20th-century, sounds and images conveyed via various media have been playing an ever-greater role in the shaping of our world and living environment.

On the Temporal Deterioration of Digital Audio: Embracing Degradation

With the setup of an archive, the mdw re-established an administrative tradition that had ended at the beginning of the 20th century.