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20 March 2023From Intention to Creation
Coordination: Lefteris Moumtzis, Dave De Rose
Duration: 30 hours
Language: English, Greek
18 - 24 August
(18.8 arrival date / 24.8 departure date)
Lefteris Moumtzis and Dave De Rose invite music producers, songwriters and instrumentalists alike to join a workshop, which aims to discover and activate the many facets of a music creative's artistic needs and aspirations. The group work will build on a combination of discussion and hands-on exploration of sounds, recording, editing and mixing, as well as composition and lyric writing. The workshop's interactive approach will introduce new notions and conceptual possibilities that will serve to broaden each attendee's perception and artistic focus.
Attention will be given to each participant's background and musical identity as well as their respective desires regarding music making. Musical concepts will bridge a path for turning ideas and improvisations into working material, giving life to inspiring new recordings that can represent each artist, eventually taking form into a finished product.
The workshop will explore all collaboration combinations in the industry e.g. between artist and producer, composer and instrumentalist, artist to label, to name a few, deliberating and consulting along the way. Aided by real life examples from the two instructors' personal experiences as professionals in the field, they will divulge useful tools on how to operate in the various working environments.
Lefteris Moumtzis
Lefteris Moumtzis is a musician, songwriter and producer. With a career spanning more than twenty years, Moumtzis has released acclaimed solo and band recordings both as a composer/performer and as a producer. In 2016 he released his first solo album under his real name, 'Now Happiness' and in February 2019 his first album as Freedom Candlemaker, Beaming Light, marking a new era for his career. The album was met with positive reviews from internationally renowned press outlets. The singles ‘Gold’ and ‘I am love’ followed in 2020 and 2021 respectively. He is currently gearing up for the release of his next album Ageless, having already released two singles and videos (The Win, Resurrection). He has composed music for various theatre and dance productions, films and documentaries. He is the founder of the record company Louvana Records,along with Andreas Trachonitis and from 2009 to 2024 he has served as artistic director for Fengaros Festival, Fengaros Music Village and Louvana Records.
Dave De Rose
Dave is an Anglo-Italian multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer & educator based between London and Athens. Since moving to the UK from Rome in 1996 he integrated into the London music scene making waves live and on record with many well known and most interesting projects. He has been building a relationship with the Athenian music and performance art scene since 2018. Studying Jazz at The Guildhall he graduated with distinction consequentially proceeding to extensively tour around planet earth with popular music bands Moloko, Roisin Murphy, Mark Ronson & The Business International, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore. Additionally, he recorded drums for Bastille, Jamie Cullum, Roisin Murphy, Scroobius Pip. Over time he began to shift away from session work, becoming more deeply involved with self-built underground projects such as Electric Jalaba (Independent/Strut Records), Flying Ibex (Bomb Shop/Best Laid Plans), Vula Viel “Good Is Good” (Independent), Pokus (Stac), Forest Binary (Independent) & The Day Goes (DDR records), Trio Tekke (Independent/River Boat Records) as well as his own productions as Dave De Rose, Agile Experiments and Rave At Your Fictional Borders (DDR records).