With the arrival of autumn, Paul Grandjean invites anyone interested in music production to new sessions at Radiona. These sessions are designed to explore the ways you want to create music – whether it’s techno, ambient, experimental, or something else entirely. Ableton is merely a tool; the real focus of the sessions is you and your sound. Dates: 15th and 22nd October 2026.
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A place to experiment with sound, make things weird, record, and figure out what kind of music you actually want to make.
Whether it’s : Techno, ambient, dub, experimental, noise, or something that doesn’t really have a name.
Ableton is just the tool.
We’ll explore sampling, synthesis, sound design, resampling and more using tools such as Sampler, Simpler, Operator, Analog, Collision, as well as some of my favorite plugins, tricks and creative workflows.
We’ll dig into sounds, tear them apart, process them, resample them and build them back into something else.
You’ll start building your own sample library, while discovering different ways to make sounds feel more alive, strange, heavy, deep, broken or simply your own.
And somewhere in all of this, we’ll work on the most important part:
Learning how to listen.
Not learning Ableton for the sake of knowing Ableton — but using it to get closer to the sound you have in your head.
Groups stay small. No fixed formula, no race to finish a syllabus. We can spend more time on what actually interests you, experiment together, and follow the direction your music takes.
Before we start,
I’ll ask you for two small playlists:
5 tracks of your all time favorites.
+ 5 tracks that represent where you’d like to go.
I’ll listen to them beforehand and use them to get a feeling for your references, your taste and the kind of territory you want to explore.
Free 2-hour introduction
To start things off, I’m offering a free 2-hour intro session.
Come meet, bring some sounds, open Ableton, make some noise, ask questions, experiment — and see where it goes.
No pressure. No need to already know everything.
Just bring:
• Laptop
• Headphones
• Motivation
Contact Paul for further questions – WhatsApp: 0033685898303 and send your application to adiktivist@gmail.com.
The working language is primarily English.