Also Cool is proud to be teaming up with Digital Hell on their workshop series Open World. The workshops will be on DJing, production, personal finance and grants, making live visuals, and more! The workshops will be hosted on Zoom and streamed on Twitch, and there will be links to donate to the artists involved and/or to organizations that they would like to highlight.

Digital Hell: Open World is an information resource sharing project inspired by 2000's early-web optimism and generosity. Digital Hell started as a DJ mix series in 2018 out of San Francisco to sonically express frustration and despair about tech-capitalist dystopia. It has since moved to Montreal where it has continued as a radio show on N10.as and an ongoing project, and now through the Open World series.

Open World is a tutorial and resource sharing series to facilitate teaching, learning and sharing within the DJ, music and visuals community while within a pandemic. Before the quarantine, Open World was an IRL Open-Decks DJ night organized with DJ Pacifier, Knapsack, and MVCOKO. The same spirit of sharing now continues online. Its goal is to create an online space to share knowledge with each other, to give and receive while digitally separated, and to build information resources that will continue to be accessible once quarantine lifts.

Remote Access is an artist/DJ based in Montreal and the person behind Digital Hell. They're most well known in Montreal for their web and design work for/and involvement in Vault and Non/Being as well as their role as an organizer of Open World: Open Decks nights.

This week’s workshop is Ableton Favourites with Tati au Miel and will take place on Tuesday, May 26th at 7pm EST.

In this workshop, Tati au Miel will take you through their personal favourite tools and techniques that they use when producing and performing music in Ableton. They will discuss topics such as using samples, favourite plug-ins and how they use them (including links to downloads), max for live, using ableton for production vs live, how to make a mix in ableton, various other tips and tricks, and how to use ableton in a fun, no-pressure way. They will also dig into one of their track’s Ableton files from their most recent EP release The Exorcism of Tania Daniel, and demo their process throughout the tutorial.

Tati au Miel is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, DJ, and designer currently based in Montreal. Spanning across many mediums such as music production, live performance, hybrid DJ/live sets, fashion, and more their work is always raw, powerful, and full of life. Their performances (both musical and artistic) are chest-reverberating and insightful experiences; their fashion designs is a gender-euphoric dreamy construction on the landscape of the body. They are not bound to one specific genre in music, either – they work with techno, punk, sound collage, noise, industrial and more to express their fluidity and vision. For Tati au Miel, the worlds of artistic exploration are infinite, and transcendental.

They recently debuted their first EP The Exorcism of Tania Daniel, an industrial adventure that is both disjointing and freeing – out on all platforms. You can find their work on Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and contact them for bookings at tatiaumiel@gmail.com.

The workshop will be held on Zoom and streamed on Twitch. The Zoom code will be posted on the Also Cool and Digital Hell instagrams day-of on May 26th before 7pm EST.

Stay tuned for information on our future workshops and online resources.

To access archived material visit 4444digitalhell.info!