This year the series kicks-off with a look into techniques for creating AV work using AI by the Standard Deviation affiliated artist Diana Azzuz, and an immersive audio mastering workshop that celebrates a fusion of technical expertise and artistic expression with Enyang Urbiks. Producer ELLLL will share insights into creating and working with collectives based on their own experience founding Ireland’s GASH collective, which aims to support FLINTA artists working with forward-thinking club sounds. Respected audiovisual virtuoso Tarik Barri will give an intensive two-day workshop on working with Videosync, a software that he co-created that acts as a visual add-on to Ableton Live, and allows non-programmers to have intuitive, precise control over visuals that live on musical timeline and respond to midi inputs. The playful electro-techno producer Poly Chain will lead a music production workshop with insights into her track-building techniques. Musician and Morphine Records label head Rabih Beaini will deconstruct a series of tracks together with participants, commenting on technical and stylistic aspects of composition, production, dramaturgy. Boris Hegenbart will share his personal practices in creative use and misuse of AI in producing electronic music.

The workshops by Tarik Barri, Poly Chain, and Boris Hegenbart are supported by tekhnē, which is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.