Sample Music Festival

Using an instrument to play pre-recorded audio samples is an integral part of today's music culture. What was once the guitar or drums is now, for many, the turntable or MIDI controller. Genres of music such as Hip Hop, House, Trap and Dub are the result of this development which is represented in live performance most often through Djing, which includes the subsets: turntablism, finger-drumming and controllerism.
Despite its millions of fans, this type of music has become rarely a subject of academic studies and cannot be studied at music university.Everything takes place in a kind of 'youtube parellel universe' and is developed mostly by people who have never been inside a music school.
This is due to the young history of turntablism compared to other classical instrumental forms and the lack of scientific analysis, educational books Academics who are proficient musicians and also play professionally.


The Sample Music Festival that takes place annually aims to create an interface between sample culture and the traditional music business. A kind of podium to exchange know how and, to learn from each other and to get pieces of information on the developments in the individual areas. Making music by means of sampling will be made more transparent and looked at from a theoretical standpoint using lectures, discussions, workshops and performances. Targeted invitations to academics and composers are intended to help extend the usual clientele.