Our Policy
The project prioritizes women, girls, queers, trans, inter* and non-binary people but there's no identity policy. Everyone is welcome but first please think about how easy it is for you to get access to these kinds of tools and skills. Please bear in mind that you might want to give space to others to access these tools first.
Our goal is to create a safer space to share music production tips and tricks, as well as give each other constructive and gentle feedback.
After coordinating and organizing for the past months we are back and happy with an amazing program full of different workshops and residencies for 2023!
We are starting with the first workshop and open call beginning of April, so stay tuned for more info ^^
Sounds Queer? invites you to the second compilation tape release party. We crated the tape to showcase new ideas on electronic music inspired by queer practices. Come joins us for a cosy evening of unexpected sounds!
Line up:
DJ set by Zosia Hołubowska SQ? Curator
Live sets:
Selin Karaman
Daphne Xanthopoulou
Sounds of the Slaughterhouse
DONATIONS FOR THE ARTISTS WELCOME!
The tape will be distributed free of charge!
When? 18. October-19. December. Pick-ups on Mondays.
Where? The pick-up and return address depend on the gear you choose and it will be provided per e-mail once the booking has been made.
How much? It is a free service.
How does it work? Like a library!
Some key facts:
Each instrument can be rent for a week. With a possibility of renewal if that specific device hasn’t been booked for the following week.
Pick-up and returns will be done on Monday at the designated address.
Here you can find a list of gear and a gallery of images. Click on the image to find more information about each instrument.
To book a device write us to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com, with the model and dates on which you want to rent it and your name. We will try to manage the calendar in a way that everybody can get to use the equipment.
Cables: No audio cables are included and in some models, the power supply cable is also not included. Please, check all the information properly.
Most of the devices have a user manual easy to find online.
OUR POLICY: The project prioritises women, girls, queers, trans, inter* and non-binary people but there's no identity policy. Everyone is welcome but first please think about how easy it is for you to get access to these kinds of tools and skills. Please bear in mind that you might want to give space to others to access these tools first.
Aida Arko is an electronic music producer and DJ based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in Techno. She established her sound signature as a new wave of hard edge driving techno with a seemingly unusual drone attraction, leaning on a dark percussive industrial tribalesque groove that grinds its why through the airiness of experimental sound scapes.
In this workshop we would like to share a few tips and tricks with you, in order to amplify your approach on producing electronic dance music and execute a track from start to finish.
Build healthy studio habits, get out of loops and creative blocks as well as focusing on your lower end, which plays a crucial role for club music.
Also we will be having a Q&A on how to put demos together and send them out to labels.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 8-10€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
This workshop includes an introduction to the life and work of composer, performer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros, a pioneer of electronic music who created the term “Deep Listening”, a practice of radical attentiveness to sound. Oliveros described Deep Listening as “a practice that is intended to heighten and expand consciousness of sound in as many dimensions of awareness and attentional dynamics as humanly possible”.
Often called grande-dame of American Minimalism Oliveros created her “Sonic Meditations” in 1974, a text score to help practitioners make sounds, imagine sounds, listen to, and remember sounds.
Following Oliveros’ instructions we will find out how her practice of Deep Listening might connect us virtually and attempt those meditations that can be performed in a virtual space i.e. “Pacific Tell” or “Telepathic Improvisation”.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
This workshop is free!
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Tony Renaissance is a musician and artist based in Vienna. They have released their first EP Dreamreality online on their label Tender Matter in June 2020 and via Skug Magazine and their event series The Future at fluc Vienna in September 2020.
Introduction to working with translating information to music. We will specifically focus on visual material. We look at Photosounder and IANNIX, as well as creative ways to "draw" sound. The workshop is dedicated to slightly experienced musicians and producers who know their way around DAW.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 8-10€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com
Language: English
BIO
Zosia Hołubowska is a non-binary sound artist, musician, and music activist. As a founder of Sounds Queer? they have been organizing and facilitating workshops on synthesizers since 2014. They share their time between performing as a curvy synth witch Mala Herba, promoting femmes and non-binary artists in electronic music as a member of Oramics, and working on their Ph.D. thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, exploring the idea of queer sound.
Let’s talk money! Which (Austrian) programs and funding schemes are there to apply to? Which one fits my project best? Which language can I use to communicate my artistic approach to the funding party? How do I organize a funding application process so I won’t lose my mind the day before the deadline? The workshop is an open discussion in which we’ll pool our knowledge about, and exchange our experiences with, different sorts of public money and strategies of how to get them.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 10-15€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Kristina is a musican (Voiler, The Boiler, Pfarre, Ana Threat, Puke Puddle, Sektstress, Schweiffels, ...) and media theorist based in Vienna. She leads an Austrian Science Fund (FWF) funded Post-Doc Project about cinema as a sound medium, teaches academic writing and writing project management, had multiple albums funded by the SKE, and
Sounds Queer? exhibition at VBKÖ
*** GENTLE TOGETHER***
FACTS:
*Soft Opening
08.05// 17:00-20:00
*Soft Closing
14.05// 17:00-20:00
*Opening times:
9th/11th/12th/13th of May 15:00-19:00.
*Please bring your favorite FFP2 mask and testing will be highly appreciated.
We have missed you and are looking so much forward to seeing you again!
***Gentle Together***
Collective sound exhibition by Sounds Queer? and workshop participants
“Gentle Together” is combining collective effort to queer up sound art, create a safer space for vulnerability, making mistakes, and deep listening. We propose to approach queer sound not from the perspective of defined sonic characteristics, but rather to open up a discussion on how to work with the sound in a queer way. There should be no one answer to the posed questions, and we are interested in polyphony, meaning many narratives and many stories, creating spaces of tension and exchange.
The Sounds Queer? collective exhibition consists of three elements: a room dedicated to electronic music pioneers, an interactive soundscape made out of workshop try-outs, and a synthesizer picnic for the visitors to play with.
The fragile soundscape created from workshop try-outs is gently nestled in the space corners, responding to your moves. Welcome to the sound picnic. You can rest among synthesizers and their blinking lights. You can try things out, make mistakes and try again. The interactive exhibition embraces all odd, whimsical, and undefined sounds and creates a space to listen, be vulnerable, and curious.
Sounds Queer? is: Zosia Hołubowska, Violeta Gil Martinez, Tony Wagner, Adele Knall
Sounds Queer? is a Vienna-based collective working on the intersection of electronic music, sound art, and queer activism. We share knowledge and tools because we believe that music can create a safer space to exchange experiences and express yourself. A synthesizer can be a feminist spaceship to challenge not only rules in music but also social norms. We organize workshops, collective jams, performances, and shows.
This workshop is thought of as a conversation, where we can share our secret tips with each other about how we move our compositions forward. Violeta aka Matte/Glossy will show different creative processes regarding music and lyrics with inspirations from Zadie Smith, Kenneth Goldsmith, Aldous Harding, etc. Every person and every song is different but there are many tips and methods out there that can help us to move a composition forward and overcome creative blockades. We will listen to some of Violeta’s compositions, finished and in-process to see how a song can evolve in many ways and all are right.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 10-15€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Behind Matte/Glossy hides Violeta, a former punk singer with classical vocal training. She writes and produces in her Viennese bedroom and is finishing her first LP. In the past, she has sung and composed in several bands (Las Cruces, Primer Premio) and has played in venues in Spain, Austria, Czech Republic and Italy. As an autodidact music producer, curiosity is the driving force for her, along with the promotion of knowledge and hands-on approaches being the best ways to learn.
Aufbauend auf den letzten Musiktheorie Workshops, in denen wir uns mit Notenlesen und -schreiben beschäftigt haben, Intervalle kennen lernten, beschäftigen wir uns nun mit Kirchentonleitern und wiederholen den Quintenzirkel und Intervalle.
Bitte habe einen Stift und ein Papier bereit, wenn möglich ein Notenblatt.
Schreib uns einfach auf welchem „Level“ du bist, sodass wir ein Programm für alle Wünsche auf die Beine stellen können.
Der Workshop findet in deutscher Sprache auf der Jitsi-Plattform statt.
Wir bitten um 10-15€ als Spende und wir haben zwei kostenlose Social Spots.
Um sich anzumelden, senden Sie eine E-Mail an soundsqueervienna@gmail.com oder füllen Sie dieses Formular aus.
Erstattungsrichtlinie: Wir leisten keine Rückerstattungen, da wir ein Kollektiv auf freiwilliger Basis sind und das gesamte Geld den Künstlern zugute kommt.
BIO
Adele Knall - A | M | K (1990, Austria) is a visual artist, radio producer, musician and cultural and social anthropologist, lives and works in Vienna. Studied Jazz at the Vienna Conservatory and Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She focuses on sound, installation, animation, video, 35mm film, language, performance, hacking, sculpture, DIY. In 2017 „50Hz“, a radio project she co-founded, won the Austrian Radio Prize for Adult Education.
What is mastering? Starting with a brief historical overview that looks at how the job of mastering has changed from the era of vinyl, through CDs and digital streaming, this workshop walks participants through basic mastering equipment and studio setups, and common issues and best practices for production, based on our own experience in mastering.
Together we will look at converters, volume control, understanding meters such as DbFS, Peak RMS, Loudness, and the importance of understanding your monitoring situation and treating your studio space. We will also go through a few examples and offer tips based on our own mastering work, pointing out common issues in tracks that we receive from artists, and identifying which ones you might be able to handle yourself versus those that are best left to the mastering engineer.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 10-15€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Queer Ear Mastering - Tara Transitory and Nguyễn Baly started Queer Ear Mastering in Berlin out of the necessity to create a safer space for female and queer artists to get their music mastered, though they are not exclusive and everyone is welcome. With a combined experience of over two decades working with sound in music, contemporary art, performing arts, audio post-production and television, they provide not just technical support but dramaturgical advice from a variety of perspectives. Their expertise covers a wide variety of styles and they have mastered for artists such as Audrey Chen, Lucrecia Dalt, Sarah Farina, Odete and Poisonous Relationship aka Jamie Crewe amongst others.
Christina wird uns einen Überblick über den speziellen Synthesizer und dessen vielen klanglichen Möglichkeiten verschaffen und uns einen Einblick in ihre Verwendungsweise geben, wie sie mit Synths musikalisch arbeitet und den MicroFreak in ihrem Live Set-up integriert.
Es geht um
eigene Synthklänge zu bauen
zu ver-formen
mit
digitalen Oszillator analogen Filter
Veränderungen zu erzeugen mittels
Cycling Envelope Modulationsmatrix Touch-Keyboard Randomness
Arpeggiator
Sequenzer auszutesten
oder Drum-Sounds mit einem Synthesizer zu basteln
Der Workshop ist offen für alle
und spannend für all jene, die sich für Synths interessieren und für Synth-Klänge begeistern oder mehr über den MicroFreak wissen wollen
Der Workshop findet in deutscher Sprache auf der Jitsi-Plattform statt.
Wir bitten um 10-15€ als Spende und wir haben zwei kostenlose Social Spots.
Um sich anzumelden, senden Sie eine E-Mail an soundsqueervienna@gmail.com oder füllen Sie dieses Formular aus.
Erstattungsrichtlinie: Wir leisten keine Rückerstattungen, da wir ein Kollektiv auf freiwilliger Basis sind und das gesamte Geld den Künstlern zugute kommt.
BIO
Die (E-) Cellistin und Komponistin Christina Ruf arbeitet in unterschiedlichen musikalischen Bereichen und möchte sich keine musikalischen Grenzen setzen. Das Eintauchen in elektronische Klangwelten und die Verwendung von Effektgeräten und Synthesizer-Klängen ist Teil ihres musikalischen Schaffens.
Zurzeit ist der Hybrid Synthesizer ‚MicroFreak‘ ein fixer Bestandteil in ihrem Live Set-up. Bei diesem Workshop wird sie aus ihrer Erfahrung heraus mit uns gemeinsam das klangliche Potenzial des Synthesizers ausforschen.
Dieser Workshop ist eine Einführung in digitale Musikproduktion mit der Audio Workstation Logic Pro X.
Der Workshop findet in deutscher Sprache auf der Jitsi-Plattform statt.
Wir bitten um 10-15€ als Spende und wir haben zwei kostenlose Social Spots.
Um sich anzumelden, senden Sie eine E-Mail an soundsqueervienna@gmail.com oder füllen Sie dieses Formular aus.
Erstattungsrichtlinie: Wir leisten keine Rückerstattungen, da wir ein Kollektiv auf freiwilliger Basis sind und das gesamte Geld den Künstlern zugute kommt.
BIO
Tony Renaissance is a musician and artist whose work centers on radical soft explorations of sound, vocals and images with a big crush on experimental pop. As founder of the music label Tender Matter, co-founder of the event series The Future and member of the Sounds Queer? collective they are promoting and highlighting the work of queer and gender nonconforming artists in electronic music.
VCV Rack is a free virtual modular synthesizer. Together with Dino Spiluttini, you will learn how to use it, how to connect basic modules, and start shaping your sound. We will focus on creating a monophonic synth voice and then discuss modulation, which in Dino’s words is “the fun part”.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 10-15€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Dino Spiluttini has been making electronic music for almost 20 years, releasing on internationally acclaimed labels such as Umor Rex and Editions Mego. After selling off most of his modular synthesizer equipment, he has spent all summer and autumn of 2020 making weird textures in VCV Rack all day every day. He currently lives and works in Vienna as a musician, producer, and mastering engineer.
Aufbauend auf Musiktheorie I, wo wir uns mit Notenlesen und -schreiben beschäftigt haben und Intervalle kennen lernten, beschäftigen wir uns nun mit Kirchentonleitern und Quintenzirkel.
Bitte habe einen Stift und ein Papier bereit, wenn möglich ein Notenblatt.
Schreib uns einfach auf welchem „Level“ du bist, sodass wir ein Programm für alle Wünsche auf die Beine stellen können.
Der Workshop findet in deutscher Sprache auf der Jitsi-Plattform statt.
Wir bitten um 10-15€ als Spende und wir haben zwei kostenlose Social Spots.
Um sich anzumelden, senden Sie eine E-Mail an soundsqueervienna@gmail.com oder füllen Sie dieses Formular aus.
Erstattungsrichtlinie: Wir leisten keine Rückerstattungen, da wir ein Kollektiv auf freiwilliger Basis sind und das gesamte Geld den Künstlern zugute kommt.
BIO
Adele Knall - A | M | K (1990, Austria) is a visual artist, radio producer, musician and cultural and social anthropologist, lives and works in Vienna. Studied Jazz at the Vienna Conservatory and Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She focuses on sound, installation, animation, video, 35mm film, language, performance, hacking, sculpture, DIY. In 2017 „50Hz“, a radio project she co-founded, won the Austrian Radio Prize for Adult Education.
We will dive into the basics of sound synthesis. Hopefully, words like oscillator and envelope will become more clear. We will focus on native instruments of Ableton Live like Operator and Wavetable and give you some hints on more experimental virtual synthesizers. The workshop is dedicated to people who have a basic grasp of the software and will focus on introducing the instruments and sound synthesis process.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 10-15€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Zosia Hołubowska is a non-binary sound artist, musician, and music activist. As a founder of Sounds Queer? they have been organizing and facilitating workshops on synthesizers since 2014. They share their time between performing as a curvy synth witch Mala Herba, promoting femmes and non-binary artists in electronic music as a member of Oramics, and working on their Ph.D. thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, exploring the idea of queer sound.
Jen will take you through her process, data collection methods, MIDI tools and the basics of sonification in Pure Data with a focus on expandability to other DAWs such as Ableton Live/Bitwig/Reaper/Logic. No experience with Pure Data or DAW software is necessary for this workshop.
Folks that are interested in participating in the workshop should have the latest version of Pd vanilla installed on their computer. (It is available for free for any platform here: https://puredata.info/downloads/pure-data)
For those that are not familiar with Pure Data, you can watch a basic introduction video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OKC6fLjF00
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 10-15€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Jen Kutler is a multidisciplinary artist working with cultural signifiers of power, gender, queerness and intimacy in the context of circuits and digital media. Her most recent data sonification projects include Sonified Physiological Indicators of Empathy which creates soundscapes based on a person's physiological responses to violence and Disembodied, a project that sonified the motions of a feminine spectrum individual's hand while bringing themselves to orgasm. You can learn more about her work at jenkutler.com.
Mataya walks through their process of how they get from a song to an immersive live performance piece. How to maximize the impact in accordance with the space and how to get the most out of a minimal set of props and equipment are the primary focus.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Mataya Waldenberg is a mystic entity born into human form, having come to planet Earth with the goal of empowering the practice of magical creation. This comes through interactive live performances, utilizing acts like marching, clapping and singing mantras together, that directly transport the audience into the fantastical world of the music - carried by Mataya’s operatic elven voice and ethereal synthesizer sounds.
Du wolltest schon immer wissen was diese Intervalle sind und Notenwerte lesen?
In diesem Workshop befassen wir uns mit den Grundmaterialien der Musiktheorie. Bitte habe einen Stift und ein Papier bereit, wenn möglich ein Notenblatt.
Der Workshop findet in deutscher Sprache auf der Jitsi-Plattform statt.
Wir bitten um 5-10€ als Spende und wir haben zwei kostenlose Social Spots.
Um sich anzumelden, senden Sie eine E-Mail an soundsqueervienna@gmail.com oder füllen Sie dieses Formular aus.
Erstattungsrichtlinie: Wir leisten keine Rückerstattungen, da wir ein Kollektiv auf freiwilliger Basis sind und das gesamte Geld den Künstlern zugute kommt.
BIO
Adele Knall - A | M | K (1990, Austria) is a visual artist, radio producer, musician and cultural and social anthropologist, lives and works in Vienna. Studied Jazz at the Vienna Conservatory and Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She focuses on sound, installation, animation, video, 35mm film, language, performance, hacking, sculpture, DIY. In 2017 „50Hz“, a radio project she co-founded, won the Austrian Radio Prize for Adult Education.
In diesem Workshop möchte ich all jenen, die sich für Modular Synthesizer interessieren aber sich noch nicht getraut haben damit anzufangen oder überfordert von den vielen Kabeln und Möglichkeiten sind oder davon zum erstem Mal gehört haben und einfach mal etwas darüber in Erfahrung bringen wollen, die ersten Schritte zeigen, wie man zum Erklingen eines Tones und im Anschluss einer einfachen Melodie kommt.
Schritt 1: Was benötige ich?
Rack, Module, Patchkabel
Schritt 2: Wie kann ich einen Ton oder Sound erzeugen und diesen verändern?
VCO, VCA, White Noise, Filter, LFO
Schritt 3: Wie kann ich eine Melodie oder einen Rhythmus spielen?
ADSR, Sequencer
Abschließend kann ich noch kurz darauf eingehen, wo man die benötigten Module und Patchkabel herbekommen kann und mit welchen finanziellen Ausgangsmittel man rechnen kann, um sich ein Basic Setup anschaffen zu können.
Der Workshop findet in deutscher Sprache auf der Jitsi-Plattform statt.
Wir bitten um 5-10€ als Spende und wir haben zwei kostenlose Social Spots.
Um sich anzumelden, senden Sie eine E-Mail an soundsqueervienna@gmail.com oder füllen Sie dieses Formular aus.
Erstattungsrichtlinie: Wir leisten keine Rückerstattungen, da wir ein Kollektiv auf freiwilliger Basis sind und das gesamte Geld den Künstlern zugute kommt.
BIO
Karolina Preuschl geboren 1991 in Wien hat an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien studiert ist Musikerin und Künstlerin Musikprojekte: Wien Diesel, Snake Boots, die Husband, Coco Béchamel, MC Rhine,... www.karolinapreuschl.com
This workshop includes an introduction to the life and work of composer, performer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros, a pioneer of electronic music who created the term “Deep Listening”, a practice of radical attentiveness to sound. Oliveros described Deep Listening as “a practice that is intended to heighten and expand consciousness of sound in as many dimensions of awareness and attentional dynamics as humanly possible”.
Often called grande-dame of American Minimalism Oliveros created her “Sonic Meditations” in 1974, a text score to help practitioners make sounds, imagine sounds, listen to, and remember sounds.
Following Oliveros’ instructions we will find out how her practice of Deep Listening might connect us virtually and attempt those meditations that can be performed in a virtual space i.e. “Pacific Tell” or “Telepathic Improvisation”.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
This workshop is free!
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Tony Renaissance is a musician and artist based in Vienna. They have released their first EP Dreamreality online on their label Tender Matter in June 2020 and via Skug Magazine and their event series The Future at fluc Vienna in September 2020.
In this chapter of our work with Ableton Live we will talk about working with audio. The workshop will cover sampling, warping, and the basics of mixing a track using various native tools that allow us to shape the timbre of the sound. The workshop is dedicated to beginners, who already know the basics of the software and want to develop their knowledge.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 5-10€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com
Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.
BIO
Zosia Hołubowska is a non-binary sound artist, musician, and music activist. As a founder of Sounds Queer? they have been organizing and facilitating workshops on synthesizers since 2014. They share their time between performing as a curvy synth witch Mala Herba, promoting femmes and non-binary artists in electronic music as a member of Oramics, and working on their Ph.D. thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, exploring the idea of queer sound.
A detailed look into DIY music marketing! Since Covid, we’ve all had to make drastic changes to how we’re connecting to people and promoting our music online. In this workshop, we will look at how to write a basic marketing plan together which will help you increase your engagement and give structure to how you reach your audience and a look into social media guidance with Facebook and Instagram.
WORKSHOP BREAKDOWN
How to write a mission statement
Learning about breaking down Aims and Objectives
Target audience development
Social Media Management with Facebook and Instagram
Tools and approaches on how to market your music
How to write a press pack
PARTICIPANT TESTIMONIALS
"Overall, I found the content of the workshop very novel and not something I would have stumbled across"
"Approach was highly accessible and easy to follow”
“Very eye opening, it’s been really useful being introduced to new platforms”
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 5-10€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com
Language: English
BIO
Aja Ireland is an award winning sound and performance artist whose live shows are described in The WIRE Magazine as “Shifting from ethereal diffusions to potent explosions that toy with genre stereotypes."
After working as a marketing manager for UK Young Artists and Unlimited, Aja has experience in developing and implementing marketing strategies and social media campaigns for international arts festivals and booking and marketing multiple European tours with an album release which received international press in The Quietus, VICE, The Quietus, Elephant Magazine, Red Bull Music and The Guardian. IN 2018, After winning the PRS Oram Award for innovative music production, Aja created a sound score for a VR experience created by Ryan Heath called "The Thinning” and has headlined major festivals such as CTM, Sonic Acts and Supersonic.
After composing a sound-score for designer LULALOOP at Berlin Alternative Fashion Week, Aja scored the spatial sound design for Joey Holder’s art installations 'Ophiux' and 'Adcredo' The Deep Belief Network which was toured at Bloc Projects - Sheffield, QUAD - Derby, Matt's Gallery - London and 6th Athens Bienalle..
Wer waren die, deren Namen wir nicht kennen, aber die Weiterentwicklung derer Arbeiten? Wer hat das erste Theremin gebaut? Wer die ersten Bausteine für „Minimal“ gelegt? Wir befassen uns mit unterschiedlichen femmes* und Frauen in der Geschichte der elektronischen Musik, hören in ihre Werke hinein und machen uns einen Überblick.
The workshop will be in German, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 5-10€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com or fill this form.
BIO
Adele Knall - A | M | K (1990, Austria) is a visual artist, radio producer, musician and cultural and social anthropologist, lives and works in Vienna. Studied Jazz at the Vienna Conservatory and Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She focuses on sound, installation, animation, video, 35mm film, language, performance, hacking, sculpture, DIY. In 2017 „50Hz“, a radio project she co-founded, won the Austrian Radio Prize for Adult Education.
In this workshop, songwriter, artist amd producer FARCE will walk you through their process of songwriting and cover the basics of structuring, writing and workshopping your songs. Tips about how to stop procrastinating and really sit down and write, how to edit and produce yourself included. Also there will be an extensive Q&A so don't be shy to bring all your questions!
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 5-10€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com
Language: English
BIO
Veronika J. König is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on writing experimental pop music. She's comfortable with any pronoun and loves pop culture. Veronika is originally from Germany, but lives and works in Vienna under the moniker FARCE.
This time we will look into MIDI. There still will be a short reminder of what it actually is and how we cab use it in our music projects. We will cover trigger options, MIDI effects as well as connecting an external instrument to be controlled by the software.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 5-10€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com
Language: English
BIO
Zosia Hołubowska is a non-binary sound artist, musician, and music activist. As a founder of Sounds Queer? they have been organizing and facilitating workshops on synthesizers since 2014. They share their time between performing as a curvy synth witch Mala Herba, promoting femmes and non-binary artists in electronic music as a member of Oramics, and working on their Ph.D. thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, exploring the idea of queer sound.
In this Workshop we’ll talk about your upcoming or planned releases and steps to self publish your music ranging from production to promotion to distribution to physical releases and release shows. Tony just released their first EP with an all-DIY approach including starting their own label and will share their knowledge in an open talk for musicians or future musicians who desire to share their creations with the world.
The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
We ask for 5-10€ as a donation and we have two free social spots.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com
Language: English
BIO
Tony Renaissance is a musician and artist based in Vienna. They have released their first EP Dreamreality online on their label Tender Matter in June 2020 and via Skug Magazine and their event series The Future at fluc Vienna in September 2020.
Our first on-line workshop, let's give it a go! We will show you how to move around Ableton Live and introduce the basics of creating music in software. The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.
To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com
Our first on-line workshop is free!
Language: English
BIO
Zosia Hołubowska is a non-binary sound artist, musician, and music activist. As a founder of Sounds Queer? they have been organizing and facilitating workshops on synthesizers since 2014. They share their time between performing as a curvy synth witch Mala Herba, promoting femmes and non-binary artists in electronic music as a member of Oramics, and working on their Ph.D. thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, exploring the idea of queer sound.
Together with Unsound Festival and Austrian Culture Forum Zosia Hołubowska // Mala Herba will invite you to their home studio and talk about budget plug-ins, deconstructing archival samples, and doing what you're not supposed to do in Ableton Live. Come hang if you want, send an email to register (address on the picture).
BIO
Zosia Hołubowska is a non-binary sound artist, musician, and music activist. As a founder of Sounds Queer? they have been organizing and facilitating workshops on synthesizers since 2014. They share their time between performing as a curvy synth witch Mala Herba, promoting femmes and non-binary artists in electronic music as a member of Oramics, and working on their PhD thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, exploring the idea of queer sound.
