Composition – Electroacoustic Music

The composition programmes focus on knowledge, experimental exploration, and artistic development. You will study in a creative environment with artistically active teachers of high expertise, concert halls equipped for loudspeaker works, a sound dome for immersive audio, and a well-equipped studio complex, all providing excellent conditions for artistic work and learning. For a long time, we have trained the most outstanding composers in electroacoustic music, operating both nationally and internationally.

Composition studies at KMH give you the opportunity to develop a distinctive artistic identity and prepare for a professional career in both national and international contexts. The programme also provides eligibility and preparation for doctoral-level studies. You will work with artistically active teachers who bring extensive theoretical and practical experience, as well as an international network within electroacoustic music. As a student, you will have great freedom to shape your studies in relation to your artistic development. The programme emphasises individual tuition and supervision, alongside seminars and workshops, with opportunities to collaborate with partners outside KMH.

KMH has a national responsibility for education in electroacoustic music and offers state-of-the-art facilities. These include concert halls for loudspeaker works, a sound dome for immersive audio, a fully equipped studio complex, and specialised equipment such as sensors, hydrophones, and surround microphones, all supporting experimental artistic practice and learning.

Outstanding Conditions for Electroacoustic Music

KMH has a national mission to educate composers in the profile of electroacoustic music at university level and provides outstanding facilities for both artistic practice and learning. These include concert halls designed for loudspeaker and performance works, a sound dome for immersive 3D audio, a fully equipped studio complex, and specialised tools such as sensors, hydrophones, and surround microphones – all enabling advanced experimentation with sound and space.

Here, you can explore and create music in innovative and unconventional forms, from electroacoustic and computer-based works to film sound and multichannel production. With KMH’s professional facilities and its proximity to Stockholm’s vibrant music and arts scene, you will have excellent opportunities to develop your artistic expression in a dynamic environment.

In addition to Electroacoustic Music, the Master’s Programme in Composition includes two other specialisations:

• Composition – Jazz
• Composition – Art Music

Developing your craft and artistic insight

The programme further develops your artistic and technical abilities, deepens your knowledge of repertoire, and enhances your artistic insight. Your composition work is at the centre of your studies. In your individual tuition, your teacher supports you in strengthening your craft, artistic voice, and capacity for reflection.

You will participate in seminars together with all composition master’s students, as well as research-preparatory courses leading towards your independent artistic project. The programme also includes a seminar series where various artistic practices and topics are presented and discussed within the composition department.

Regular concerts featuring both instrumental and electroacoustic works provide many opportunities for your music to be performed. These include collaborations with established ensembles, choirs, orchestras, and big bands. The programme also offers elective and research-preparatory courses.

The master’s programme concludes with an independent artistic project: a final degree project consisting primarily of an artistic work that is presented and documented, often a substantial composition, accompanied by a written reflective part. In the course Degree Project, a seminar series and individual tutoring will be given as support for writing and implementing your independent work.

An open environment with broad genres and aesthetic diversity

Collaboration between specialisations is encouraged, and the expertise you bring to KMH is highly valued. Together, the composition programmes at KMH create an open and diverse environment with wide-ranging genres and aesthetics, where students from different backgrounds meet and inspire each other.

KMH also offers a Master’s Programme in Composition – Film Score, in collaboration with Stockholm University of the Arts, and an international joint programme, Contemporary Performance Composition, CoPeCo.

• Composition – Film Music
• Contemorary Performance and Composition, CoPeCo