Whether the focus is on the media-related or content-related aspects of artistic writing, whether a critical analysis of sound aesthetics is intended to lead to a cogent journalistic or scientific essay, or whether research and narration form part of the work on films, audio plays or performances – the study of text forms and writing methods holds great promise, as does the prospect of being able to access a further context of artistic, cultural, political or scientific topics. Music and Text is interesting for all those who wish to work on reviews, lyrics, booklets, audio plays, research art and documentary film, fictive narrations and theoretical arguments.

The overlaps and tensions between sound and text are many-facetted and represent a field of work in its own right, which is able to integrate completely different approaches. At the IMM, the Music and Text major is divided into the following three areas: Writing on Sound, Artistic Text in Music, Film and Audio Plays, and Narration and Media Aesthetics.