Neel - Seminars on Sonic Design: Sound as Shape

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Endzeit, Recombinant and Gray Area present two sonic seminars with Neel, Endzeit's artist-in-residence: evenings to explore the process behind electronic music composition, accessible to everyone. These are not technical classes. Each session is a lecture on ideas and aesthetic methods, illustrated with material from Neel's own Ableton sessions, followed by an open Q&A and a live ambient performance. The subject is listening itself: how a producer hears, selects and shapes sound. No prior experience is required. I. Sound as Origin · Thursday, 12 November Why are certain sounds interesting, and where do they come from: found sources, reused material, and processing that draws out what a recording already holds. A case for working with as little as possible, and for treating limitation as method rather than constraint. II. Sound as Shape · Tuesday, 17 November How sound becomes composition. Treatment, mixing and mastering considered as aesthetic decisions rather than procedure: what hold