👨🏫 Instructor: David Shimel
🗓 8 weeks, 1 class per week, on the following Fridays: May 31, June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 12, 19, 26
🕰️ 2 hours per class, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
🗺 Location: Merlin’s Place at 248 McKibbin St, Brooklyn
💰 Tuition tiers: $400 (Standard), $800 (Accelerator: includes four 1-on-1 calls with the instructor to go deeper on your music), $200 (Remote). We also have some scholarships available, so if you’re interested in receiving financial aid, please fill out this form. Protip: your employer may offer you a continuing education budget to spend on classes such as this one!
👥 Enrollment: 25 students in-person, unlimited students remotely.
📋 Apply here: https://airtable.com/appqj7FQhKgCdLnWM/pagJsr7xx8XjWkcLp/form
💡Prerequisites: None!
✂️📃TL;DR: Want to learn how to produce your own electronic dance music (EDM) using Ableton? And then DJ it with Mixxx?? Then apply here today!
A FractalU Summer '24 class.
Every human is the living expression of a unique myth, and sound is one of the main vectors for this expression. While our modern era tends to favor vision above the other senses due to its immediate comprehensibility, audio has managed to retain its mystical aura even in these legibility-obssessed times. By tapping into music’s Dionysian power, we can project facets of our consciousness and imagination along currents that resonate with listeners, vibrating them with frequencies that elude lexical explanation.
Thanks to advances in recording technology, we no longer need a dedicated studio full of expensive, specialized equipment to make a professional-sounding track. Instead, we can do it all from the comfort of our personal computers. Furthermore, due to the Internet and social media, major record labels and radio stations no longer have a stranglehold on the distribution of music, nor can they as easily influence which songs become popular. Now, anyone can publish a song to SoundCloud or TikTok where, algorithm willing, it has the potential to become a breakout hit.
EDM itself is only a few decades old, hardly older than computers themselves in the context of human history, and both are still making their impact felt on our culture and our species. No longer confined to illegal warehouse raves or nerdy basements, hardly any of today’s pop songs have managed to elude EDM’s synthesized influence, and major music festivals are obligated to showcase at least a few DJs (Coachella) when they’re not drawing their entire lineup from their ranks (Electric Daisy Carnival). Just what are producers putting in these seemingly simplistic songs?? As for computers, well… you’re reading this on one :)
So, allow me to invite you on a journey of mythical self-discovery, to frolic on the frontiers of audio artistry, in the approachable yet enigmatic universe of Electronic Dance Music!