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0 to 1: Ableton Live for Beginners Workshop | Sustain-Delay 2025 #6

27 April, 2025 | 10:00 am - 2:30 pm

The Malta Society of Arts’ Performing Arts Programme 2025 – Sustain-Delay’s Second Edition

0 to 1: Ableton Live for Beginners Workshop | Sustain-Delay 2025 (#6)

Want to make electronic music but don’t know where to start? Start here!

Led by Maltese musicians Rebecca Theuma and Daphne Sammut, this workshop is chiefly aimed at women and gender-diverse participants (to continue making electronic music in Malta a more diverse space), but anyone is welcome.

Anyone who is curious to make that leap into making their own music is welcome!

Led by Maltese musicians Rebecca Theuma and Daphne Sammut, this workshop is aimed towards anyone and everyone.

This hands-on session will cover the basics of Ableton Live, providing attendees with the skills to start crafting their own musical ideas, using Ableton Live or other music software of their choosing.

Participants are required to bring their own laptops equipped with a trial or licensed version of Ableton Live. A free 30-day trial of Ableton Live 12 Suite can be downloaded from here: https://www.ableton.com/en/trial/

Rebecca Theuma lives in Berlin and makes music as That BB, tethering between techno and trance. She is also known for her previous solo project Hearts Beating in Time, blending echoey vocals and moving beats.

Daphne Sammut performs under the moniker Dafne. She creates techno-infused soundscapes and specialises in blending audio and visual synthesis, building organic, trippy grooves.
Together, Theuma and Sammut will guide participants through the initial steps of music production, fostering a creative space where beginners can start transforming their musical ideas into reality.

A prep pack will be sent ahead of your participation in the programme.

Date: Sunday 27/04/2025
Time: 10am – 2.30pm
Location: ISSA (Former Plant Thieves) Ħamrun

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This event is one of many taking place as part of the 4 Seasons of Adventurous Music presented by Sustain-Delay in 2025.

Sustain-Delay 2025 is produced by the Malta Society of Arts and Artistic Director Kurt Buttigieg, in collaboration with Arts Council Malta and is supported by the Rock’N Malta Fund (Festivals Malta)

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What is Sustain-Delay?

Exploration, interaction and sound.

In 2025, the Malta Society of Arts’ adventurous music programme, Sustain-Delay, returns to unite art forms, disrupt norms, and foster transformative dialogues. This year’s edition of Sustain-Delay presents an ambitious line-up of 14 distinct events, offering a diverse, intriguing and yet approachable selection of concerts blending electronic and classical music with experimental, jazz and folk traditions, alongside poetry and dance. Deepening its commitment to the community, Sustain-Delay 2025 also introduces engaging and enjoyable workshops designed to leave a lasting impact.

The 2025 programme unfolds over four dynamic seasons: Winter (February), Spring (April), Summer (July) and Autumn (November), with additional fringe events happening throughout the year. Each season carries its own unique concept, and the programme goes beyond concerts to include workshops and talks, hosted at the Malta Society of Arts and other venues across Malta.
Join us on this sonic adventure, and discover our programme HERE.

Sustain-Delay 2025 is a Malta Society of Arts project in collaboration with Arts Council Malta.

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[ Programme ]

14 distinct events unfolding over four dynamic seasons: Winter (February), Spring (April), Summer (July) and Autumn (November)

(Details to follow)

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[ Sustain-Delay Team ]

Artistic Director: Kurt Buttigieg
Marketing Manager: Kris Polidano
Site Manager: Francesca Zammit
Graphic Designer: Samwel Mallia

Kurt Buttigieg – Artistic Director’s Biography

Kurt Buttigieg is an “occasional artist and unwavering tinkerer”, with a perpetual organisational streak.

He read for a Master’s degree in Sound Art from the University of Barcelona and previously worked at the museum of the European Parliament in Brussels as curator for temporary and permanent exhibitions, and also planned spin-off museums in other EU capitals.

He organised numerous concerts, workshops and exhibitions in Malta and Belgium, as well as founding a small label called Complex Holiday documenting “inside-out ambient and sound art tomfoolery”. He is also a writer for several specialised magazines, including The Wire and New Noise.

As an artist and musician he released several works over that past twenty years, under his and other names, and created Malta’s first dedicated sound art installation in 1999.

A strong believer in community, Kurt is a committee member of the Banda Immakulata Kunċizzjoni (Ħamrun), Ħsus, Arsha Our and is active in other social, cultural and environmental projects.

Kris Polidano – Marketing Manager’s Biography

Kris Polidano (b.1999) teeters between the administrative side, creative and communal sides of the cultural sphere. Having graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in English with a Maltese minor from the University of Malta in 2020, she primarily focuses on the way language impacts the way we perceive and communicate as multilingual persons. Her interests range from audio-visual archiving as the Communications and Community Manager and a researcher for the Magna Żmien Archive (2020–) to project managing and promoting experimental electronic music alongside her closest friends with the Malta Society of Arts’ Sustain-Delay Programme (2024-).

Kris also works with Festivals Malta’s marketing team where she manages the communications of multiple festivals, including Ritmu Roots Festival, a festival which celebrates musical traditions.

She is also president of the newly established Kooperattiva Strati, a cooperative focused on the arts, its social function and wellbeing. In the past Kris has also published some of her writing in Maltese in the Għaqda tal-Malti’s Leħen il-Malti (2019) , Maltese literary journal Aphroconfuso (2024). She has recently also been commissioned to write a cycle of poetry for prominent Maltese sculptor Paul Scerri for his latest exhibition The Sound of You Dreaming (Jan-Feb, 2025).

Photo credit: Leo Chircop

Dates

Sunday 27 April 2025

10am – 2.30pm

Venue

ISSA,
Former Plant Thieves,
Ħamrun

Google Maps: 35.887308, 14.486526

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  • Date: 27 April, 2025
  • Time:
    10:00 am - 2:30 pm

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