Dubspot Announces New Courses and Instructors
Electronic music production/DJ education center Dubspot has announced several new instructor and course additions to their lineup.
On the staff side, new instructors/Ableton Live 8 experts Patrick Cupo, Brian Jackson and Tony Grund will join the Ableton Certified teaching facility. John Selway and Zemi 17 will also now be on the Dubspot roster.
New courses for the Fall season include “DJing with Ableton Live 8” and “Ableton Live Production Concepts”. “Max for Live/MSP” and “Jitter” courses will be taught by another new Dubpsot instructor, Dave Linnebrink.
Dubspot is also introducing new advanced electronic music classes.
In addition, throughout the month of August, Dubspot is offering various Back-To-School discounts for classes in August and for early registration.
Lastly, the Dubspot Podcast Series continues, featuring Dubspot instructors and favorites playing music that is both forward-thinking and educational.
For additional info on all of the above, visit the Dubspot Blog here.
More on Dubspot’s newest instructors:
John Selway built a high quality catalog of productions stretching back to the early nineties, both on his own and as a collaborator in various artist and label projects. From his first electronic band Chaotic Sound Matrix, to his major contributions to the early productions of Deep Dish; from his first success in the techno world as part of the seminal New York duo Disintegrator to the most successful of his collaborations, Smith & Selway, and his deep and minimal techno label CSM; from the intelligent electro-funk of Synapse and Serotonin Records, the electro and synth-pop of Memory Boy to the wild improvisational eclecticism of the Rancho Relaxo Allstars, Selway has created and helped to create one of the most stylistically wide ranging bodies of work in the world of electronic dance music.
Patrick Cupo is an awarding winning music educator, professional studio musician, and the Director of Online Curriculum for Dubspot. He is an Ableton expert with 12 years of teaching experience ranging from private lessons to graduate school lectures. Patrick started one of the world’s largest and best Ableton education programs at Pershing Middle School in Houston, Texas. He and his students won the 2010 MENC/NSBA Electronic Music Composition Talent Search in the Middle School category.
Brian Jackson was one of the very first Ableton Certified Trainers on the planet. He is the author of 3 tutorial DVDs on Ableton Live and tech editor for the Live 7 & 8 Power! books (among others) for Cengage Learning. Brian also regularly works as a creative-technical consultant for companies (e.g., Ableton and Access) and individuals (including multiple Grammy nominees/winners). Specializing in Mac-based digital audio, Brian started using Pro Tools in 1996. He is also a professional audio engineer (mixing and mastering), and brings to Dubspot more than eight years of teaching experience from various audio engineering schools in Manhattan.In 1999 Brian received an MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Prior to relocating from SF to NYC in 2002, he also worked for Harmony-Central.com and Rocket Network (now DigiDelivery). Currently, his studio is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Aaron “Taylor” Kuffner, better known as Zemi17, is a Brooklyn based composer, producer, musician, DJ and media artist. He is the co-creator, and art director of the Gamelatron: the world’s first and only fully robotic gamelan orchestra. He is the resident DJ for the legendary Danger events, based in Brooklyn. He formed the experimental multi-media theater group Ransom Corp in 1997, founded the 23 Windows Collective community arts studio in Brooklyn in 2001 and co-created and curated The Resonant Wave Experimental Multi Media Art Festival in Berlin in 2002. He was a guest composer at Theater Thikwa for mentally disabled adults in Berlin in 2003. In addition to years of musical research in Java and Bali supported by the Indonesian government, Zemi17 has toured extensively throughout the US and Europe both as a DJ, theater composer and director, and most recently with the Gamelatron as a signature installation at Portugal’s Boom Festival.
Tony Grund has been involved in music all over the world, from Florida and New York, to London and Japan. He uses his classical background and training to bring a unique sound to his productions, and is constantly exploring new ideas in music and multimedia art. Tony is one of the founding members of ambient/rock band echo stream, and also DJs around New York City and the east coast.
Dave Linnenbank boasts a decade-plus of experience with MaxMSP in all its various guises, in addition to his work as a musician and teacher. Dave’s migration in his teenage years from acoustic instruments to the world of synthesis began a life spent working with electronic music technology. His first use of Max was making controllable video pieces to accompany ambient songs in performance. Since then, Dave has used Max for a wide variety of audio and video applications, from editing and generating MIDI, to creating plug-ins and custom audio tools for music production for the recently-released bundle of Max For Live devices (Max Fuel, the First) from puremagnetik.com.
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