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The international and transdisciplinary Master’s programme Future Analytics: AI & Audio Worlds is aimed at graduates with a Bachelor’s degree in music (and musicology), cultural and sound studies, as well as computer science, data science and artificial intelligence. They will collaborate to explore, in a specialised, research-oriented approach, how AI and auditory cultures influence, shape, and challenge one another—and how futures can be shaped responsibly. You learn to analyse future-related challenges, critically reflect on them, and actively shape them. The programme is the first to bring these disciplines together in a single transdisciplinary Master's programme.
During your studies, you will acquire both in-depth knowledge in your own field and skills in the complementary field. You learn to analyse complex problems, deal with uncertainty, communicate across disciplines, and develop innovative solutions. Musicians learn to programme — computer scientists engage with music and audio design. Research skills, critical thinking, data literacy, creativity, and reflection on critical social and scientific discourses form an integrated competency profile. The programme views the future not as a fixed state, but as an open arena of negotiation in which agency continuously shifts between people, machines, data, and institutions (shifting agencies). You will work with academic theories, models, and methods, combining analytical thinking with creative practice.
Course Highlights
A central component of the programme is a two-semester student research project conducted in small teams. Building on academic theories, methods, and concepts, you develop your own research questions, future scenarios, or prototypical applications and gain experience in transdisciplinary work. You will learn to bring together different perspectives, develop a shared technical language, and work collaboratively on current future-oriented topics. Together, you organise a Future Topics Conference and link research to socially relevant future challenges.
The Master’s programme focuses on innovative teaching and learning formats such as project-based learning, peer learning, team teaching, as well as portfolio-based assessments and academic mentoring. These enable you to continuously reflect on your development and shape it independently. Through academic mentoring and close supervision by faculty members, you are supported throughout your entire programme.
After completing the programme, you will have a unique skill profile at the intersection of AI and auditory cultures, qualifying you for international careers in research, technology development, the cultural and creative industries, as well as AI ethics, governance, and consulting; or you develop your own scientific and artistic research and project ideas.
The two-year Master’s programme Future Analytics: AI & Audio Worlds comprises four semesters with a total of 120 ECTS credits. The programme is structured around a Specialisation Field, a Complementary Field, and a Transdisciplinary Field (Core).
You will pay a contribution of approx. 470 EUR per semester. This is a contribution to student services, the student council and university administration. It includes a culture ticket and a ticket for public transport. You can use local public transport in Hildesheim and across Germany free of charge. You benefit from discounts on meals at the university cafeteria and other services.
You will need between 900 and 1,200 EUR per month to cover your living expenses:
The university offers Lore-Auerbach scholarships supporting especially capable and socially committed students. Students in acute financial emergencies can apply for a scholarship from the Social Fund. The university is also in charge of scholarship programmes like the Deutschlandstipendium (the German public-private scholarship) and the Landesstipendium Niedersachsen (scholarship of the State of Lower Saxony).
See: University of Hildesheim scholarships
Additionally, the International Office offers scholarships to support intl. students with graduation grants, grants for (social) commitment, the DAAD Prize (funded by the DAAD / Federal Foreign Office), and Rotary Club scholarships.
See: International Office
Students with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or AI, or in Music, Musicology or Anthropology (with a focus on sound), Cultural and Sound Studies, Sociology of Music or related fields are eligible to apply.
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