14 May Introduction to sound art
14
May
23
May
Introduction to sound art
Workshop - Experimental Cycle - Spring 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025 - Friday May 23, 2025
12 am
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
With Nadah El-Shazly
IN ENGLISH
Member $120 | Non-member $180
This theoretical and practical workshop explores the many basics of sound creation: recording, editing and digital audio processes. The instructor will introduce you to experimental sound design and editing on Ableton, based on her own work.
A must for artists wishing to tap into the infinite potential of sound to express themselves!
Detailed schedule :
- Wednesday May 14 from 6pm to 9pm
- Friday May 23 from 10am to 5pm
For more information, please contact us at : services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Material:
Participants should bring a laptop with Ableton software (free 30-day trial), downloadable here: Ableton software
To record audio content, Main Film offers 3 recorders for a rental fee:
– Zoom H5N digital recorder
– Sound Device 702T digital recorder
– Sound Device MixPre 6 digital recorder
You are free to use your own equipment if you have it, or to simply use a telephone recorder.
If you have any questions about equipment rental at Main Film, please contact Alexis or Jeanne at tech@mainfilm.qc.ca.
Nadah El Shazly
Nadah El Shazly is a producer, vocalist and sound artist from Cairo, Egypt. Her music combines expressive 19th century musical concepts from her homeland with contemporary, borderless forays into electronic and improvisational idioms. She has toured the world extensively, featuring at festivals including Le Guess Who?, REWIRE, Irtijal, and FIMAV, among many others. Her debut album, Ahwar, landed at #12 on The Wire’s ‘Best Albums of 2017’. Beyond her own music, El Shazly is an inspired collaborator, working closely with like-minded Egyptian musicians Maurice Louca and Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush). Recently, she’s been making brain-scrambling, beat-driven music as Pollution Opera, a newly minted duo with irreverent Welsh sound artist Elvin Brandhi. El Shazly has also spent time on-screen, starring in the feature length film About Her (2020) and appearing in the Netflix original series Love, Life & Everything In Between (2022). Currently, she is wrapping production on a pair of film scores and preparing to release her sophomore album, due in spring of 2024.