Basics of DJ'ing and Live Sound Workshop

‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡ Basics of DJ'ing and Live Sound Engineering ‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡
with DJ and musician Girl Whatever and live sound engineer Ebony Rattle. 

This workshop will take participants through the basics of DJ'ing; including how to use DJ decks, choosing the right tracks, beat matching, and how to create a set. This will be complimented by fundamentals of operating a live sound system, going through patching in speakers and microphones, introducing analog mixing consoles, how to plug in and use microphones, and basic EQ'ing and effects. 

This workshop is for women, transgender, non-binary and gender diverse people only. In our lived experience, we understand how hard it is to emerge into DJ'ing and live sound as a person of a marginalised gender. We would like to create a safe, supportive environment where participants feel empowered to get their hands on some gear!

This workshop is at an introductory level that is suitable for beginners of DJ'ing and live sound. If you've never tried before and would like to, please come! 

Where: Echo & Bounce, 596 Stanley St, Woolloongabba QLD 4101. 
Please note: This workshop will be up a flight of stairs and is not accessible. If you have any specific access needs, please reach out and let us know and we can try our best to accomodate them. This is a disabled and neurodivergent friendly space! 

Tickets operate at a sliding scale. Please pay what you can afford. No one will be turned away from lack of funds - please message if payment is a barrier. First Nations participants come for free. 

About the Artists
Girl Whatever (she/her)
An emerging Naarm multidisciplinary artist (FKA s0dawater) reputed notably for alchemising classical and contemporary music worlds, Girl Whatever (Stel) encapsulates the trans artist experience, appealing to both the mainstream and underground with her developed musicality, curated image and boisterous stage presence. 

Her mixes seek to turn dancefloors into portals, peppered with iconic pop hooks and nostalgic deep cuts to craft sonic realms coloured with elements of bass, club, house, minimal, garage, baile funk and percussion. She has played twice at Bush Music Festival, has opened for artists such as Slayyyter and heavy gore and recently made her international DJ debut for Radio Tempo Nao Para based in Amsterdam. Girl Whatever has previously played at venues such as Miscellania and Colour Club and currently enjoys a club residency at Pride of Our Footscray. 

In her original work, Girl Whatever creates a sonic Frankenstein out of the pop music that fertilised her developing mind. The influence of 2000’s club music permeated the soundscape she hopes to renaissance and the nostalgia associated with it. Her lyricism references the alternative feminine subconscious, diving into oftentimes broody existentialism while her vocals reference the world of classical music, having learned to sing from her previously studied mother and then going on to study tertiary Music Theatre. 

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Ebony Rattle (they/them)
Ebony Rattle is a live sound engineer, sound designer and performance artist investigating performance art through an experimental and accessible methodology. Their work predominantly examines metaphysics; alternative universes steeped in questioning identity, existence, possibility, actuality, corporeality, informed by their own lived experience as a disabled, neurodivergent, queer person. 

In 2021, Ebony was mentored by esteemed theatre director Adena Jacobs through the Midsumma Pathways Program for LGBTQIA+ artists living with disability. Recent theatre credits as writer/director include Destroyed (2024, Theatre Works/Midsumma Festival), Winona (2022 - 24 Intentational Tour), which was nominated for Best International Show and Best Two Person Show at the Hollywood Fringe Awards 2023 (USA). Ring, Ring! (2021, Theatre Works) and BLITZ (2019, Melbourne Fringe Festival).

They have a decade of experience working in live audio and vision production and have worked extensively with Australia’s most esteemed live performance companies, including Opera Australia, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Theatre Company, Victorian Opera, The Australian Ballet, Ilbijerri Theatre Company and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Contemporary music highlights include mixing at Fuji Rock Festival in Niigata, Japan, Splendour in The Grass, Meredith Music Festival and Fairgrounds Festival.

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