At some point in the middle of the sum­mer semester, the le­gendary Ton­meister­party (usu­ally quite sud­denly) is on the agenda: the an­nu­al high­light of Det­mold's stu­dent party scene. Every spring eager Ton­meister stu­dents agree on a new, out­sider, of­ten cryptic­ally ap­pear­ing motto and choose the new party or­gan­izer. This po­s­i­tion - at least in the sum­mer semester - is at the top of the hier­archy of tu­tors at the ETI.

After that, apart from a large-scale beer or­der, not much hap­pens for a long time un­til shortly be­fore the planned party, or­din­ary sound en­gin­eer stu­dents turn in­to spe­cial­ists for light­ing tech­no­logy, pyro­tech­nics, video in­stall­a­tions, sound design, stream­ing, pro­gram­ming of sur­veil­lance sys­tems, stage con­struc­tion, DJ-ing, band ar­range­ments, re­hears­al man­age­ment, in­nov­at­ive and motto-suit­able set list com­pil­a­tion, more or less (but more and more!) sus­tain­able dec­or­a­tion, trail­er shoot­ing, cos­tume con­struc­tion, cock­tail re­cipes and much more.

Old gen­er­a­tions pass on their ac­cu­mu­lated know­ledge to new ones and the whole in­sti­tu­te is turned up­side down for a week. Every­one can let off steam cre­at­ively, try out com­pletely dif­fer­ent things, and for­get what our fa­cil­it­ies were ori­gin­ally in­ten­ded for.