The NYC edition of the lecture was moderated by DJ, producer and DJ Tech Tools founder Ean Golden, and included Hawtin, NYC house icon Françios K, Minus label mainstay N-sound, and Dantiez Saunderson, who prior to the lecture conducted a production tutorial.
Embracing unpredictability has informed her recording process, and she tells me about spending long days in her studio watching hours upon hours of YouTube videos, ranging from the practical (production tutorials) to the esoteric (ASMR and unboxing videos).
It tracks student progress through tests, papers, video productions, tutorials and graded-discussion groups.
We describe the practices associated with the production of tutorials in terms of genres of participation, modes of engagement with new media.
I also wanted to use my custom-built Rails Tutorial production system (or something comparably powerful) to output multi-format ebooks from common source files.
There's some basis for this but only as far as the relaxing of internet censorship that catalysed the protest movement also gave producers and DJs access to music production software, YouTube tutorials for beat making and a means to distribute their work.
The paper hypothesizes a four-part framework to define the e-learning capacity gaps that these circumstances appear to represent: the "instructional design capacity gap", the "production capacity gap", the "tutorial capacity gap" and the "community building gap".
But fast-forward to 2013 and the world has witnessed an explosion of brick-and-mortar DJing and production schools, online academies, Youtube tutorials, and even DJ classes for the tiny babies of New York City yuppie shit heads.
One of the insults often hurtled against modern electronic music artists of the last decade is that fast access to easy-to-use software like Ableton Live and FL Studio along with the influx of online tutorials and expensive production courses has flooded the scene with underwhelming tunes made by relative amateurs.
The movie briefly turns into what feels like a documentary tutorial on high-end liquor production.
It's gimmicky, but he's got a deep understanding of the material and serious production chops (check out his 80s keyboard tutorial).
