LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Decolonize Electronic Music 

Behind the alluring facade of modernization, contemporary music production tools conceal numerous shortcomings that often go unnoticed. Today’s mainstream DAWs, such as Ableton, FL Studio, Logic, and Cubase, were designed with a Western-centric approach, rooted in the principles of European classical music. The absence of a standardized tuning data system presents challenges for artists seeking to incorporate elements from African, Asian, Arabic, or Latin American music traditions, forcing them to navigate software limitations and resort to complex workarounds.

In this workshop we are pushing boundaries of sonic experimentation and challenge colonial legacies in music production. By exploring existing tuning systems from around the world or create our own, we are also interacting with generative music creation using these diverse tuning systems. 

Together, we initiate a dialogue addressing the challenges presented by music technologies, develop our own tuning system, and explore its application in music production. The Workshop was already held sucessfully at Sonic Territories Festival Vienna with a culminative Performance at the Festival.