CNTRL - Toronto, CA @ Coda
Richie Hawtin
Marc Houle Live
Justin James
Ean Golden
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RICHIE HAWTIN proudly presents for 2015 CNTRL: Individuality & Creativity In Technology-Based Music, a college campus tour.
Beginning April 15 in Boston, MA at Berklee College of Music and Middle East Downstairs, this innovative, inventive, and immersive experience will touch down at colleges and hot spots in eight major college markets across North America before finishing up in Los Angeles April 2 at UCLA and The Palladium.
In 2012, CNTRL established a groundbreaking model of daytime lectures on music, technology, and their intersection and nighttime performances that proved to be a first for the genre. Now, that template expands and evolves for 2015, hitting more markets across the country along the way. Once again, the brand allows attendees a new kind of insight into the music in addition to a powerful and potent concert that literally places the days words in motion.
This time around, the enlightening musical happening confidently lives up to its title of Individuality & Creativity In Technology-Based Music. Featuring Ean Golden of DJ Tech-Tools as seminar moderator, the day basically functions as a college for future electronic music stars. Guitar Center in the USA and Moog Audio in Canada will run a five hour technology marketplace, offering students exclusive discounts on participating brands while lectures are happening. Each sponsor will be unveiling and flaunting new products.
Technology companies participating are:
AIAIAI
Beatport
DJ Techtools
Funktion One
Little Bits
Livid
Pioneer
Roland
Splice
Subpac
Traktor Native Instruments
At the centrepiece of CNTRL: Individuality & Creativity In Technology-Based Music, there is an hour-long masterclass produced and hosted by one of the worlds premier electronic music schools Point Blank Music School. The day culminates on a discussion with RICHIE HAWTIN, Ean, and DJs at each respective date as well as special guest speakers. For example, Grimes will join the tour for a discussion in Los Angeles. As Claire Boucher, she has performed at Hawtins Enter.Ibiza in the past. At night, attendees get to witness everything come to life during a fiery gig by CNTRLs namesake and a myriad of top artists and revolving line-up depending on the city.
About the tour, Ean adds, CNTRL is a collection of inspiring artists who have taken control of their career and forged original paths through the music industry. By going out on the road and directly speaking to fans, this tour will move aspiring artists to find their own voice, and believe in the possibility of success, even if it doesn't fit the typical music molds of today.
Confirmed Tour Dates & Lineups:
Wednesday Apr-15
BOSTON
Berklee College of Music / Middle East Downstairs
Richie Hawtin
Matthew Dear
Matador
Ean Golden
Guest Speaker: Michael Bierylo, Chair, Electronic Production and Design - Berklee College of Music
Thursday Apr-16
PENN STATE
Penn State University / Levels
Richie Hawtin
Matthew Dear
Matador
Ean Golden
Friday Apr-17
NEW YORK
NYU / Webster Hall
Richie Hawtin
Francois Kevorkian
Ean Golden
Dantiez Saunderson
Saturday Apr-18
MONTREAL
Concordia / New City Gas
Richie Hawtin
Marc Houle Live
Ean Golden
Mateo Murphy
Guest Speaker: Blue Hawaii
Sunday Apr-19
TORONTO
Reyerson University / Coda
Richie Hawtin
Marc Houle Live
Justin James
Ean Golden
Wednesday Apr-22
SEATTLE
University of Washington / Neptune Theatre
Richie Hawtin
Dubfire
Chris Liebing
Ean Golden
Friday Apr-24
SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco State University Music/Recording Industry Program/ DNA
Richie Hawtin
Chris Liebng
Matrixxman
Ean Golden
Saturday Apr-25
LOS ANGELES
UCLA / Palladium
Richie Hawtin
Chris Liebing
Victor Calderone
Ean Golden
Lee K
Guest speaker: Grimes
CNTRL is all about engaging new and old, past and present North American fans of "EDM" electronic dance music and showing them the roots of the music, the history of a global movement and demonstrating what the future of music technology and performance has the power to become.
Since launching in 2012 as the CNTRL: Beyond EDM tour, the outing has embarked on a cultural engagement, bringing together fans of electronic dance music and those interested in it into deeper forms of the genre by educational daytime lectures on music technology. Lectures focus on the techno and technology aspects of modern-day electronic music, presenting the more futuristic and underground side of the genre, as championed by Richie Hawtin and his peers for the last two decades.
Central to the CNTRL concept are daytime seminars in the colleges to inform and inspire people about technology, music production, live performance, and the business of electronic music. CNTRL will be a future thinking session, but will also ensure the students leave with a deeper understanding of how the genre developed to where it is today. The event then ends with a club gig in the evening, giving the students a chance to experience the artists in action.
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