This workshop teaches participants essential tools and creative techniques for sound design using Ableton.

Instructed by Stephen Surlin, this workshop reviews tools for sound design that can be used in film, theatre, games, and sound effects, using experimental features of Ableton. This includes the use of effects and instruments as well as the use of free plug-ins to create sound that can be modified in Ableton. These plugins use granular, spectral and modular synthesis. Some experience with Ableton Live is recommended.

Participants will need a laptop with Ableton Live. Ed Video has a limited amount of laptops with Ableton Live Intro available for members to use. Non-members may rent a laptop for an additional $10 +HST.

Please email workshops@edvideo.org for any questions or accessibility concerns.

*Stephen Surlin is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator. Surlin’s practice includes audio, visual, and technology-based theatre production work with Canadian Stage, Outside the March Theatre Company, Obsidian Theatre Company, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, and youth education programs with Soulpepper and Toronto Metropolitan University. Surlin’s art and design work often incorporates hardware, software and wearable sensors that wirelessly connect participants to interactive audio-visual experiences. Examples of this work includes immersive sound design for TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (Canadian Stage), the wireless haptic feedback system in No Save Points (Outside the March Theatre Company), interactive audio-visual installations at Nuit Blanche (Toronto), and outdoor musical theatre at the SummerWorks Festival (Toronto)*.