to explore sonic fictional worlds and energize the creative process.
2025 April 30 - May 28 (Wednesdays), 5:00pm-7:00pm in kwia’s cozy living room in Berlin.
Integrating curiosity, theory, and music production techniques, we’ll co-explore sound as an apparatus of interconnectedness to develop sonic fictional worlds. Investigating methodologies for hacking flow, the course strives to energize creative processes while challenging and critiquing dominant production standards. Focusing on concept, practice, play, and technical skill-sharing, we’ll reimagine how we might approach music as a form of self-expression and a tool for healing and sensing beyond our present reality. Our creative energy can be more than just a balm for precarious and difficult times; by developing a sensitivity to what is, we can dare toward the hopeful vistas of what if.
We’ll share and develop our personal sonic worlds through each step of the creative process:
✣ Ideation and conceptual development
✣ Sourcing and creating sonic material
✣ Creative Wolrdbuilding Methodology
Me ~ tuning to self/body/immediate surroundings (& deep listening)
We ~ collaboration/pluralization (working together is essential)
De ~ deconstruct/decode/de—
Re ~ reconstruct/recode/re—
✣ Arrangement, composition, and mixing in Ableton
✣ Releasing and sharing music under late-capitalism
We will also discuss the barriers faced by gender-diverse artists to imagine queer and feminist alternatives in a supportive atmosphere. The course highlights the sonic worlds of pioneering and contemporary theorists and musicians for inspiration.
We will work in Ableton - prior knowledge is recommended, but not required.
Other DAW’s are welcome, but please bare this in mind.
*This is a BIPOC and FLINTA-focused course, prioritizing marginalized voices and perspectives.
Allies are welcome, but please come with an open mind and a commitment to support these voices.*
To participatce please register here in advance.The course has limited capacity and will be held English.
Course Fee
Sliding scale 100-160€ ~ pay what you can
Send an email if you’d like to attend but can’t afford the full fee.
- Schedule
- Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 5:00pm–7:00pm
- Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 5:00pm–7:00pm
- Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 5:00pm–7:00pm (online)
- Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 5:00pm–7:00pm
- Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 5:00pm–7:00pm
Location
kwia, Maybachufer 16, 12047 Berlin
Equipment Requirements
✣ Laptop and Ableton Live software or another DAW
✣ Headphones
✣ Paper and pen to write
About the Instructor
Madelyn (they/them) is a Berlin-based artist and educator investigating connection, home, biophilia, and the adjascent possible, or ‘what if...’ Madelyn believes that stretching and pulling at the uncanny nodes of perception holds the power to conjure psychosocial transformation beyond human-centred perspectives. Madelyn produces, DJs, and performs under their genre-defying moniker Slowfoam. Slowfoam amalgamates a constellation of sound sources ~ electroacoustics, field recording, granulated synthesis, feedback, sound design, drones, and spoken word ~ into a/biotic relects from the aqueous deep.
Madelyn's website, instagram, bandcamp, and soundcloud