New Music is an extension of the
contemporary classical music, and it represents the cutting and creative edge of classical music tradition. Combining the academic achievements of the 20th century and the discovery of the avant-garde music, it was influenced by experimental, jazz and popular styles, which led to a blurring of the boundaries between genres and styles.

Term which designates a musical orientation based on the use of electroacoustic devices for the conception, production, presentation, storage and/or cognition of works. Electroacoustics uses sound sources as diverse as natural sounds (which can be picked up by microphone), analog electronics (produced by equipment such as synthesizers) and digital (generated or processed by digital means). These sources may subsequently be processed and organized by electroacoustic techniques or by digital means before, in many cases, being stored on or presented by an electromagnetic medium.

Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs. It includes the theory and application of new and existing computer software technologies and basic aspects of music, such as sound synthesis, digital signal processing, sound design, sonic diffusion, acoustics, and psychoacoustics. The field of computer music can trace its roots back to the origins of electronic music, and the very first experiments and innovations with electronic instruments at the turn of the 20th century.

Today multimedia might be defined as the seamless digital integration of text, graphics, animation, audio, still images and motion video in a way that provides individual users with high levels of control and interaction. The evolution of Multimedia is a story of the emergence and convergence of these technologies.

Combine music with other majors to create a unique opportunity for artistic expression. Research, laboratories and other forms of cooperation, the purpose of which is the interdisciplinary exchange of experience and knowledge. Such practices initiate a dialogue between musicians, artists, curators and other artists, often becoming a productive platform for the accumulation of new ideas and further joint projects.

Over the past years the term sound installation has been used to describe a wide variety of interdisciplinary art making. The term has been adopted with reference to any number of works which in some way integrate the element of sound — generally in a non-conventional manner — and which may otherwise be hard to categorise. This very broad use of the term has made it difficult to propose one single, clear definition for the concept of sound installation. As part of the broader category of installation art the term may be more exactly understood. This category of works has been defined as an art form “which rejects concentration on one object in favour of a consideration of the relationships between a number of elements or of the interaction between things and their contexts”. In sound installation, we find this particular quality of relationships to be expressed between the audio, visual and/or architectural elements of the work and secondly between the sound and the space for which the work is conceived as well as between the sound, the space and the observer.

A diverse set of musical practices that gained momentum in the middle of the 20th century, characterized by its radical opposition to and questioning of institutionalized modes of composition, performance, and aesthetics.

Experimental music is a subset of “new music” as is avant-garde. This delineation might be eschewed in favor of a continuum which ranges from more traditional music on the one end, avant-garde music in closer to the middle, and experimental music on the other end, with many pieces falling somewhere between experimental and avant-garde. These two bodies of music differ not in type, but in degree.

The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right. Free improvisation represents the culmination of the avant-gardist musicians quest for complete, uncompromised freedom.

Free improvisation invites the audience to the core of the creative process and establishes with them a close complicity as witnesses to an unrepeatable experience. Free improvisation is a much richer field for the study of interaction and creativity than any other form of improvisation.

Sound art or sonic art is an art form that focuses on sound as a fundamental (literal or implied) element. Its definition is constantly changing as more and more established and emerging genres are now covered by the umbrella of sound art or sonic art.

Sound art is an artistic discipline in which sound is utilised as a medium. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art is interdisciplinary in nature, or takes on hybrid forms. Sound art can engage with subjects such as acoustics, psychoacoustics, electronics, noise music, audio media, found or environmental sound, explorations of the human body, sculpture, film or video and an ever-expanding set of subjects that are part of the current discourse of contemporary art.