WORKSHOPS

I have been designing and teaching workshops on singing and electronic music for many years. I have collaborated with festivals like Hyperreality, Ars Electronica, Unsound, to name a few, and projects like Synth Library Prague, Austrian Culture Forum, Refuge Worldwide, Oramics, Women’s Rock Camp Poland, and Sound School Melbourne. I also presented workshops at Angewandte, Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, and Offenbach University of Art and Design. Below you can find workshops I currently offer.

Ableton Live 12 Instroduction

The workshop is addressed to beginners in electronic music who are interested in a hands-on introduction to the workflow of production and a practical overview of the Digital Audio Workstation interface. The workshop will focus on explaining key terms and organizing knowledge in a way that is useful for the participants. We will discuss challenges and roadblocks in starting to make your own tracks and share tips and tricks to overcome them. The workshop format has been worked out through years of teaching and self-learning and embraces all kinds of questions, mistakes, and insecurities that might arise. The purpose is to find a way to make creating music with software fun and inspiring.

Working with archival samples

The workshop is designed as a hands-on artist talk and introduction to the artist’s long-term practice. We will discuss how archives of traditional music have been created and maintained, and what it means for contemporaries to sample from them. The workshop's approach is informed by decolonial and anti-imperial theory.  We will then use Ableton Live 12 to playfully engage with the samples. We will approach the musical material not only as audio snippets but also as control signals to influence our composition experiments further.

How to synth?

The workshop resembles a synthesizer playground, consisting of Sounds Queer? Synth Lab collection. Various synthesizers are set up for participants to explore and jam together. The meeting starts with an introduction to the basic principles of sound synthesis and creating a live hardware setup using a mixer and MIDI connections. The participants are invited to experiment on their own and later on in small groups to experience collective creative energy.

Landscape as an archive

The workshop offers insight into the artist’s vocal practice. It begins with the theory of resonating places in the body and their connection to archetypes and stories, following the work of Emma Bonnici. These ideas are introduced as practical tools and used to explore landscape as a score.

A key element of the workshop is engaging with one’s land of origin and reimagining a reciprocal relationship with the land. The session is partially informed by feminist speculative fiction and critical fabulation. Participants are invited to listen to the stories that reside both in the land and in their own bodies, especially when working with particular ghostly narratives.

The workshop focuses primarily on voice. It provides practical tools for vocal practice, along with prompts for imagining and improvising scores inspired by the natural surroundings.