This Wednesday, October 23rd, TakeHome QTBIPOC Arts House and send + receive partner for an intro to Electronic Music gear, setup, and production workshop! The workshop runs from 5-9pm and there are 15 spots available; RSVP here:

Access to electronic music production has never been easier and cheaper, yet it’s still difficult for up and coming BIPOC musicians to forge their path to an electronic music practice. Takehome and s+r welcome you to an absolute beginners introduction to electronic music setup and production. This is a 4 hour workshop (with snacks) and in the following week participants are encouraged to book one on one time with Hassaan and/or Nancy for deeper dives, links to free software as per your needs, for advice on software and/or hardware, and more.

For the first half of this workshop, Hassaan will be demonstrating the construction of basic and complex signal chains for live performance and recording setups. She will be demoing usage and connection of hardware/software synthesizers, effect boxes of different kinds, MIDI controllers, audio interfaces, and mobile devices as music making tools.

For the second half, Nancy will be demonstrating how to navigate GarageBand for beginners, using built-in music loops and samples, and arranging beats to produce a full track.

Hassaan is a Montreal and Winnipeg based self taught experimental musician and producer who has been a music production nerd for almost twenty years and specializes in finding good, accessible and affordable ways to make music. She has played in various bands, famously Satan’s Chewtoys in winnipeg, and also takes great joy in playing metal and hardcore and equally Indian classical and electronic music of different kinds.

Nancy Nguyen is a working freelance graphic artist and traditional East Asian art enthusiast. Nancy has been practicing various forms of art such as sumi-e ink painting, Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) and more recently, music production, while living in Vancouver where most of her musical influence came from. She started experimenting with GarageBand during quarantine in 2020 and won third place in a beat making competition in her hometown Winnipeg, MB. Her music can be described as experimental, South East Asian, and nasty.