About this Event
Join us for a fully online, experimental seminar focused on creative sound design and building strange, expressive sonic worlds. This class is a space for producers, composers, and electronic musicians who want to push beyond conventional workflows and use Ableton as an instrument in its own right.
In this seminar we’ll explore playful, unconventional approaches to making sound. Many people learn production in a very linear way, record, arrange, (re)mix, but never get the chance to experiment with systems, textures, or generative processes. This course is designed to fill that gap. Whatever your practice, this is a space to explore how a wide range of tools inside Ableton can be made to interact in surprising ways.
Perfect for anyone interested in experimental electronic music, sound art, film/game audio, ambient, installation work, or live performance who wants to design immersive, responsive sound environments.
Dates: Feb 13th, Feb 20th, Feb 27th, March 6th
Time: 11 – 12.30 PM GMT
Location: Online
Class Structure
Each session will begin with a short, focused talk introducing a creative sound design idea such as using Sampler and field recordings, building generative MIDI systems, designing modulation matrixes, or creating complex return-channel ecosystems, followed by guided practical experiments inside Ableton.
Across the four weeks, you’ll learn how to use modulators to create interactive systems where devices influence each other, how to design variation and generative MIDI tools and behaviours that remain musical, and how to use groups and returns to build coherent sonic worlds. Classes are highly interactive and practice-led, with time to experiment, share patches and ideas, and get feedback from peers and the instructor. The emphasis is on developing a playful, exploratory mindset and discovering new personal approaches to sound.
Meet Your Instructor
Daniel Gouly is a composer, sound designer, music technologist, and creative producer working across electronic music, ethnomusicology, and sound art. He holds a PhD in Music from The Open University, where his research focused on underground electronic music cultures and sound technologies, alongside an MMus in Ethnomusicology from SOAS. Daniel has over two decades of experience working with music technology in creative and educational contexts, including electronic composition, sound design for theatre and sample packs, and live performance. Alongside his academic work, he is co-leader of the award-winning ensemble Don Kipper and has delivered workshops across the UK with young people, artists, and community groups.
His work can be heard across a wide range of recorded and multimedia projects, including Greyscale’s Fargazing, Natural Expressions And Breathe, as well as a series of collaborative releases. He has soundtracked installations for international exhibitions such as the Asian Art Biennale in Taiwan, sound designed podcast series, and regularly provides mixing, mastering, and additional production for critically acclaimed collaborators on albums including Sunshine Diaries and Yiddish Electronic.
https://www.danielgouly.com/
Email [email protected] if you want to discuss whether this class is suited to your current practice.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kupfer, 58 Dace Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 60.00 to GBP 80.00
