Babycastles Academy is the education arm of Babycastles. Join us on Sunday afternoons at 3pm for workshops and jam sessions. Learn new skills. Make new friends.

Join Hyacinth Ramsay as they walk you through their process for making music using sounds found from their immediate environment. Starting with a few simple tools and working up to more sophisticated methods of processing audio and sound design to build out a small song.

If you want to follow along you'll need a microphone and a Digital Audio Workstation (Hyacinth will be using Ableton Live but a lot of these techniques can be applied in any DAW you like). Some pre-recorded sounds you're interested in doing some sound design with would help but are not required. This workshop will mostly focus on sound design and while we will be making music, the nitty gritty bits of how a song is constructed will be secondary.

Hyacinth Ramsay is a musician, game developer, and educator. They make music under the name Luciform, and have a preoccupation with using strange sounds in strange context.

*This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.