Ethereal Corruption:

Avant-Pop to Fractured Industrial

Cohort Afternoon Timing:

This 8 week course will run from April 22nd to June 10th
We will meet once a week on Wednesdays at 2pm EST for 2 hours via Zoom
All sessions will be recorded (you will receive a login for my site after checkout to access all course materials & recordings)

Overview:

Hello - let’s make some weird sounds!

Thanks to everyone who took one of my classes last year. I’m finally back with a brand new course on six tracks from some of my favorite artists (listed below). Each week, we will dive into one of these tracks to try and understand what makes it so special. We will listen, discuss, analyze, dissect, and of course, jump into Ableton!

Last year, I found that a lot of my students wanted more guidance on how to take our crazy sounds and build them out into a full length track. So, this course will have a little more emphasis on how to actually *apply* and arrange what we create. Don’t worry, though, I’ll still be showing you lots of weird Ableton tricks!

Details:

Difficulty: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate (although this course caters to a range of skill levels, you should have a basic knowledge of how to navigate and use Ableton)
Project Files will only be compatible with Ableton 11 & 12
Each session we will:

listen to and analyze a track (so come prepared for discussion and participation)
break down the track’s production in Ableton - we will not be focused on exact recreation, but rather how the track can inspire our own creation
make music - you will be given time in session to create (you’ll also receive an Ableton project file with samples and presets so you can immediately mess around)

Each week there will be optional assignments - in our final session, everyone will have the chance to share something they’ve created in the class!

Schedule:

*order subject to change*

April 22: Death Grips from The Powers That B

April 29: FKA Twigs from M3LLI55X

May 6: Eartheater from Trinity

May 13: Machine Girl from Wlfgrl

May 20: Björk from Vulnicura

May 27: A. G. Cook from 7G

June 3: Poetmistry Track Breakdown + Q&A