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One of the most important centres for electroacoustic music.

Electroacoustic Music Studios

Welcome to the home of the Electroacoustic Music Studios in the Music Department at the University of Birmingham, and of BEAST–Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre–the Department's large scale multichannel loudspeaker presentation system.

The University of Birmingham has a long history of excellence in the field of electroacoustic music composition and presentation.
Our constantly upgraded studios (recently refurbished along with the BEAST system through a £500,000 SRIF grant) have served to train some of the field's leading practitioners.
Former students teach at major institutions within the UK and around the world, including at Harvard University, the University of Manchester, the University of Sheffield, Edinburgh University, the University of Huddersfield, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, the University of Malaysia, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and many more.

The world renowned BEAST system has presented concerts across Europe, and for more than 25 years has represented the highest level of presentation in electroacoustic music.
Postgraduate students have the opportunity to work with BEAST, both having their works presented, and gaining valuable practical experience in the fields of sound reinforcement and audio technology through working on BEAST events in Birmingham, and in many cases abroad.
BEAST is at the forefront of research into composition large-scale multichannel electroacoustic systems, and is now capable of mounting concert systems with in excess of 100 individual loudspeakers, each discretely addressable.

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Music Department ranked second in the country for research

Birmingham's Music Department was ranked joint second out of all the country's 53 Music departments in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

The work of all staff was returned for the RAE and a full 50% of our work was judged 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour'; a further 35% was judged 'internationally excellent'. This follows our top ranking of 5* in the 2001 RAE.

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