Behind the Beats with Cloudchord

Name: Behind the Beats with Cloudchord
Start: 2024-07-12T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-14T20:00:00-04:00
Location: COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors

Schedule

Fri Jul 12 2024 at 04:00 pm to Sun Jul 14 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors | Wappingers Falls, NY

Behind the Beats, Techniques for Producing & Performing Electronic Music with Cloudchord
July 12 - 14, 2024
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
While known as a highly prolific downtempo artist, Cloudchord's range expands beyond any particular musical genre, tempo, or ideology. While amassing over 130 millions streams, this past year has seen him dropping boom bap bossa novas, funky disco, cinematic lofi, and trancey deep house. Genuine connection with the creative Source is the mission.
Over the course of 3 days, we will cover the vital topics for both producing and performing electronic music.
We will explore the essential wisdoms and skills of the Creative Visionary and Technical Ninja.
The Visionary:
- The seven chakras of mixing.
- Approaches, philosophies, and energetic imprints of musical styles.
- Timeless composition practices that transcend styles and trends.
- The spirit of creative collaboration, with others and the Universe.
- Retaining your joy within the business of music.
- Limitations and how to uncover your unique style/ sound.
- Trace Don’t Copy: Digesting your influences.
- Diary Entries vs Bronze Statues: When is a piece of music completed?
- The art of releasing music and having a genuine social media presence.
The Ninja:
- Organization and maximizing workﬂow
- Sound selection and transitions- half the battle
- Warping and editing - the key to a speedy workflow
- Mixing: understanding eq, compression, panning and reverb.
- De-mystifying the dark art of Mastering
- Priorities for performing live
- Recording quality sounds
- Iconic vs Clever: Less is more
- Midi, aka Sheet Music for Robots
- Gear: What sparks joy *and* gets the job done?
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YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Cloudchord
Cloudchord aka Derek VanScoten is a Producer, Guitarist, and Ableton Certified Trainer. He has presented at official Ableton events in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Denver, Austin, Dallas, and Atlanta. He was a beta tester for Push 1 and 2, and Ableton Live 9-12. He also contributed several presets to Live 11.
As an artist, Cloudchord continues to move from strength to strength.
Live shows incorporate improv looping, group sing-alongs, uptempo funk numbers, and in the crowd guitar solos.
Past collaborations include Big Gigantic, Emancipator, Braxton Cook, Prob Cause, Dirtwire, East Forest, Oatmello, Sunsquabi, Random Rab, and Ian Ewing. Check out the Cloudchord Essentials Playlist on Spotify for his 10+ hours of released music.
While much of Cloudchord’s catalog is self released, he has also collaborated with Nettwerk Records, Chillhop Music, Inner Oceans, Aviary Bridge, Loci Records, Gravitas Recordings, and Lofi Chill Records.