Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt

Presenter of the Darmstadt Summer Course,
Archive, Library, Network
IMD is a cultural institute of Darmstadt, City of Science.

Talking Darmstadt

News, reviews & reflection on Darmstadt Summer Course 2025 – made by participants in the “Words on Music” course

The Electric Guitar Diaries

Darmstadt Sonicals #1: An anthology of sonic transformations in contemporary music

Archive

80 years of musical discourse and performance practice: the digital archive of the Darmstadt Summer Course comprises 97,000 titles, including around 8,000 audio recordings, 34,500 photos, 38,500 letters, telegrams and postcards. Browse online at imd-archiv.de! To consult certain materials at IMD, please make an appointment via imd@darmstadt.de!

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