The composition of mixed electroacoustic music course trains students for careers as composers of mixed electroacoustic works, using acoustic instruments and technological means of processing and synthesising sound signals.

The course also covers knowledge of information technology, giving young graduates access to various kinds of career even in fields that are not directly linked to music, such as dance or theatre (e.g. motion capture, analysis algorithm programming, light processing, sound spatialisation and computer-assisted stage design).

This fairly broad field includes composition of instrumental or mixed electroacoustic music, research or programming, composition and performance of electronic music, and teaching of music-related technologies.

multimedia composition option

The art of electronic and multimedia composition in the 21st century!


This is what the Geneva Haute école de musique (Geneva HEM) and its Centre for Electroacoustic Music are developing in a pioneering and original way with the new Multimedia Composition option of the Master of Composition and Theory. This option is aimed at composers, musicians and performers driven by digital media as well as interdisciplinary artists with a passion for music. Are you crazy about new technologies? Come and create original and innovative works where electronic, electroacoustic, instrumental, video, web, performance and installation compositions are mixed. Share and develop your ideas on the cultural, theoretical, technical and aesthetic issues surrounding music and new media. Immerse yourself in real-time interactive sound and visual media, sound art and instrument design. Come and  create in contact with the other music departments, guest artists and professional ensembles.

For more information please contact Gilbert Nouno

Curriculum for the Master of Arts in Composition and Theory (mixed music composition)
Composition and Theory department