Study: Creativity and User Experience in Sound Design
Why do music producers choose and use certain musical instruments and sound-generation
technologies for their creative work? This survey is part of my Bachelor’s thesis in Media
Informatics at IU – Internationale Hochschule.
As part of the DAVE Festival in November 2025, Anika Jankowski of Oh My Music! and I
discussed
with the audience what an ideal platform for music streaming of the future might look like.
There are many ways to distribute music digitally. My article compares Spotify's streaming
service with
Bandcamp's ‘fair trade music platform’ model and YouTube's Content ID system for recognising
and remunerating music recordings in videos.
The Influence of music streaming on mental health of music listeners
Listening to music can have both positive and negative effects on mental health. Music
consumption is increasingly
taking place via streaming. The effects of music streaming on a person's mental health
depend on the context, musical experiences and preferences, and well-being. Important
features of
music streaming are the extensive music catalogue of music platforms, barrier-free access
and
constant availability.
In 2022 I started studying media informatics at IU International University. Currently I am
writing my Bachelor thesis about Creativity and User Experience in Sound Design.
As part of my
study, I did a project on user interface design about DAVE Festival website. I also looked
at the influence of AI on music and the influence of music streaming on mental healt of music
listeners.
My book article on How to Bandcamp, Spotify and YouTube - Basics of digital music
distribution has been published on Springer / Gabler at the end of 2025.
To explore the sound of beating sine waves I attended FELD workshop with Ulf Langheinrich at
ICAS festival in 2015. For DAVE Festival
I organized DAVE Workshop Camp with Electric Indigo,
Thomas Wagensommerer and Robert Henke at University of Music in Dresden 2017 and 2018. In 2024
Hellerau - Center of European Arts invited me to a workshop about 3D scanning objects using
LIDAR scanners to find the
digital me.