We Are The Unheard - The Academy

Join the movement!

Calling all female identifying people!

We Are The Unheard Academy provides accessible training and development support to gender minorities and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Their goal is to guide participants from the beginner stage to a professional career, aiming to significantly increase the representation of female-identifying producers and songwriters in the music industry.

Introduction to Ableton:

2 hours a week for 8 weeks via Zoom, 3 In-Person networking events with masterclasses with industry professionals.

Modules include:

- The Interface:

Learn about how to navigate around Ableton Live including the browser, transport, and mixer sections.

- Making Your MIDI Expressive:

Understanding two of Ableton Live Intro’s chance tools. Note chance and Velocity chance give you fun variations to your patterns, more dynamics and a more human feel.

- Beats - Drum Racks:

Understanding Drum Rack, recording using your computer keyboard, quantizing and saving your project.

-Recording & Editing Audio:

Learn the different ways to record Audio, Mic connection and Audio Interfaces. understand comping, editing the audio & different warp modes.

- Melodies:

Building your ideas quickly and layering sounds using Ableton Live Intro’s killer MIDI transformation tools.

- Arrangement & Automation:

Arrange your project so you can perform it as a live jam from session view into arrangement view!

- Basic Mixing:

Learn how to create your mix and use creative effects processing to improve your sounds.

- Sampling With Simpler:

Time to have fun! Play around with other Live Intro’s stock sampler and understand internal sampling.

If you identify as:

- Female

- Non-Binary

- Trans Woman

- Gender Non-Conforming

- Age 18+

What You Will Leave With:

- Understanding how you navigate your way around Ableton, being able to complete a track, understand how to use plugins and record your audio, understanding MIDI, Audio interfaces exporting your tracks.

- Community Access To Private WATUA Facebook Group

- Industry Insights

- Eligible for Ableton Live Intro Licence

- Flare Audio Merch

Please note, this is a free programme however in order to be considered We Are The Unheard do ask that you purchase a WATUA hoodie and support the academy on your social channels by posting photos of you in the hoodie, before, during and after the programme. 

Further details will be provided once your application is successful.

Apply for the We Are The Unheard Academy here.