Sonic Worldbuilding is a course that has been taught online with Soundial and in-person at Kwia in Berlin. Integrating intuition, science fiction, queer theory, and music production techniques, the course co-explore sound as an apparatus of interconnectedness to develop sonic fictional worlds. Investigating methodologies for hacking flow, the course strives to energize creative processes while challenging and critiquing dominant production standards.
The course invites participants to share and develop sonic worlds through each step of the creative process:
✣ Ideation and conceptual development ✣ Sourcing and creating sonic material ✣ Creative Wolrdbuilding Methodology ✣ Arrangement, composition, and mixing in Ableton ✣ Releasing and sharing music under late-capitalism
Focusing on concept, practice, and play, we reimagine how we might approach music as a form of self-expression and a tool for healing and sensing beyond our present reality. Our creative energy can be more than just a balm for precarious and difficult times; by developing a sensitivity to what is, we can dare toward the hopeful vistas of what if.
The course also discuss the barriers faced by gender-diverse artists to imagine queer and feminist alternatives in a supportive atmosphere. The course highlights the sonic worlds of pioneering and contemporary theorists and musicians for inspiration.
We work in Ableton - prior knowledge is recommended, but not required.
Other DAW’s are welcome, but please bare this in mind. It can be adapted to fit DAW-less formats.
**This is a BIPOC and FLINTA-focused course, prioritizing marginalized voices and perspectives.
