Producing & Performing Electronic Music with Cloudchord

Name: Producing & Performing Electronic Music with Cloudchord
Start: 2026-06-24T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-26T12:00:00-04:00
Location: COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors

Schedule

Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Fri, 26 Jun, 2026 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors | Wappingers Falls, NY

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Over the course of 3 days, we will cover the vital topics for both producing and performing electronic music.
The workshop is open to students of all levels with a focus on Ableton Live as well as finding joy in the music making process. From composition to mixing, a wide variety of subjects will be tackled with both range and depth.
All participants will receive a coupon for 30% off Ableton Live 12 that can apply to either a new license OR upgrade!
Optional Add On:
Extend your stay with a guitar workshop and Full Moon celebration following the Electronic Music workshop!

WHAT TO EXPECT
We will explore the essential wisdoms and skills of the Technical Ninja and Creative Visionary.
The Ninja:
- Organization and maximizing workﬂow
- Sound selection and smooth transitions
- Warping and editing - a speedy workflow
- MIDI - Sheet Music for Robots
- Mixing and mastering - a simple, yet dark art
- Becoming a strong performer
- Hacking the streaming industry
- Understanding music publishing
- Where are the revenue streams
- Jab, Jab, Uppercut - the key to social media
- Gear: What sparks joy *and* gets the job done?
The Visionary:
- The seven chakras of mixing
- Energetic imprints of musical styles
- Timeless composition practices
- The spirit of collaboration
- Retaining your joy
- Limitations
- Digesting your influences
- Diary Entries vs Bronze Statues - When is a piece of music completed?
- Having a unique, genuine thumbprint

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.
Read the interview with him at Ableton.
Watch a Cloudchord Tutorial on the Ableton Youtube channel.
As an artist, Cloudchord continues to move from strength to strength.
While known as a highly prolific downtempo artist, his 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.
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.
Bonus Cloudchord fun facts.
1. He scored electronic music for the documentary “In Football We Trust,' which debuted at Sundance 2016, and won an Emmy in 2017.
2. He produced the 14 song Disco Biscuits album “Revolution in Motion.”
3. He runs an Ableton Education Youtube station called Open Channels.
4. He won the Of Monsters and Men remix contest in 2016 with a viral tropical house flip of "Wolves Without Teeth.”
5. In 2023, he did over 200 hours of live looping on Twitch

CoSM WORKSHOP SETTING
Class sessions will take place in the newly renovated MAGI Art Lab.
Grey House, CoSM's Visionary Victorian guest house, provides accommodations for all participants.Residing onsite together is a part of this immersively creative week, providing maximum interactivity, immersion & enrichment. Accommodations in Grey House are offered in a variety of economies and are additional to the workshop fee.

ACCOMMODATIONS
The Grey House, CoSM’s Visionary Victorian guest house, offers accommodations for all participants. Works of art by Alex Grey, Allyson Grey and accomplished artists of the international Visionary Art community are featured throughout guest rooms and common spaces of Grey House.