WORKSHOPS

• Build a theremin
With Athina.
Design and program the sound of a theremin with a microcontroller: The theremin is the world’s first electronic musical instrument and the only instrument you can play in the air with your hands. Clara Rockmore played her first solo concert on it nearly 100 years ago. She worked closely with its inventor, Lev Theremin, to develop this magical instrument. The theremin is used in many famous sci-fi movies and experimental pop music. Duration: 30 min. Registration on sight.

Duration: 30 min.
Registration on site.
In the courtyard

• Produce your own beats
With Tash Todd/Bakläxa (producer/DJ).
You want to know how to make beats without expensive equipment, just understand and try out what music producers do? Learn how to make sounds with the computer? Then join this workshop.

Duration: 30 minutes.
Registration on site.
In the studio

• Code with Sonic Pi
With Adrienn Veres (programmer/tinkerer).
Sonic Pi is free music programming software. No problem if you’ve never programmed before! It’s really easy to instantly create experimental cool sounds and write your first code. In this workshop you will learn the basics. Then you can create electronic sounds at your own pace and continue working on them in your spare time. Whohoo!

Duration: 30 minutes.
Registration on site.
In the studio

• DIY Synthesizer
With Susanne Grunewald (Tinkerer).
A synthesizer (synth for short) is one of the main instruments of electronic music. Melodies and rhythms are created from electrical voltages. In this workshop you will learn the basic functions of the instrument and build your own synth.

Duration: 45 minutes.
Registration on site.
In the courtyard

• You as the sound engineer
Have you heard of the profession of sound engineering? How does the sound from big stages or at small club concerts reach our ears? What do we hear when we stand on a stage? We will introduce you to the job of a sound engineer in Berlin using the ACUD Club as an example.

Duration: 30 minutes.
Registration on site.
In the club

• XOIR Singing
With Colin Self (performer) and Yosa Peit (music producer).
XOIR is a choral format by Error Music mentor Colin Self. Unlike memorizing sheet music, this vocal workshop focuses on your senses and the shared experience in a group. So explore your voice and your body. And be excited! Colin is in New York during the Error Music Festival, so Yosa Peit will conduct the workshop with Colin on a screen.

Duration: 20 minutes.
No registration necessary.
In the club

• AI Travel into the future
With Angelica Tavella (producer /hardware).
In this workshop we’ll embark on a creative journey to envision the future of music creation. Through interactive discussions and hands-on experiments, we’ll collaborate with cutting-edge AI technology to explore groundbreaking possibilities for music-making in the years to come. Get ready to ignite your imagination and discover how humans and AI can collaborate to shape the future of the music industry. (Written with ChatGPT).

Duration: 30 minutes.
Registration on site.
In the studio

PARCOURS

• Female* Pioneer Timetravel
STATION 1 of our time travel parcours through electronic music: Here is an overview of great women* who were amongst the first to work with technologies and electronic music. After some of them we named stations of our parcours. But there are many more! On this timeline you will get a first overview of the chronological order in which electronic music and computer technologies emerged and how they are connected. At each festival station, you’ll learn more about the topics on this timeline! Have fun discovering!

All day, no registration necessary.
In the passage to the courtyard

• In the beginning was the Theremin
STATION 2 of our time travel tour through electronic music: Play a few sounds on the first ever invented electronic musical instrument: the theremin. You play it with your hands in the air! Learn about the basic functions of this magical instrument and start your time travel into electronic music here. Clara Rockmore developed this instrument together with Lev Theremin and was able to play it admirably.

With Athina (Tüftlerin).
All day, no registration necessary.
At the entrance

• Human Computer
STATION 3 of our time travel parcours through the computer world: You want to know how a computer works by only using your body and your senses? We explain to you through analog programming games what computer commands are and what an algorithm is. Do you know how long computers have been around? And who invented that computers understand us?

All day, no registration necessary.
Place tbd

• Synthesizer Carousel
STATION 4 of our time travel tour through electronic music: Designed as a collaborative musical instrument, you can explore and play 6 modular synthesizers on this synth carousel. You connect the individual circuits by plugging in cables and immediately hear the sound, without there being a clear right or wrong. A synthesizer is one of the main instruments of electronic music. Melodies and rhythms are created from electrical voltages. Trans pioneer Wendy Carlos developed the first synthesizer with keys: the Moog.

With SchneidersLaden (Synth Legend).
All day, no registration necessary.
Courtyard

• Music Producer*in
STATION 5 of our time travel tour through electronic music: What is a beat? How does hip-hop legend Missy Elliott produce a track? How are the tracks you hear on TikTok made? When did sounds start being created digitally? Explore the basics of electronically generated music with Ableton’s interactive website. Experiment with beats, melodies, basslines, harmonies, and song structures. You can get started with no prior experience. Ableton Live is software that lets you develop musical ideas, turn them into finished songs, and bring them to the stage: a complete recording studio in your computer!

With Angelica Tavella (producer / hardware designer) and Bakläxa (Dj / producer).
All day, no registration necessary.
In the studio

• Error Music Listening Vol. I
STATION 6 What does Error Music sound like? Error Music is a sound x tech format where girls*, trans*, inter* and non-binary youth from many Berlin districts have worked with great technological and musical inventions since 2020. The groups performed with their own Error Music Show at the club. In discarded car seats on the balcony you can listen to the shows we recorded during our project time at ACUD. You will hear performances by crews from the Schule an der Jungfernheide Spandau, the Interkulturellen Mädchentreff August Reinickendorf, the Schottenburg Steglitz, the Barnim Gymnasium Falkenberg, the Klinke Marzahn, the Nelson Mandela Schule Schöneberg and the Alte Feuerwache Kreuzberg. Thus the participants have become pioneers* of electronic music themselves! Open your ears.

With Error Music Crews.
All day, no registration necessary.
On the balcony

• You on the Club Stage
STATION 7 of our time travel tour through electronic music: You always wanted to perform in a real Berlin club and hear your sounds on a really thick sound system? On our rehearsal stage you can start right away and try everything out! Beginners welcome 🙂

With Angelica Tavella (Producer/Hardware Designer) and Bakläxa (Dj/Producer).
All day, no registration necessary
In the club