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Music Production Often considered a black art, modern music production encompasses skills as broad as composition, sound design, synthesis, recording and post production. From dance floor to professional film score, the career options are ever changing. The SCIM approach to music production education can only be described as revolutionary, integrating music theory, multimedia learning content and an array of skills and techniques never before taught on the African continent.
 
DJ & Live Performance From turntables to laptops and beyond, the array of technology at the disposal of the modern DJ is almost endless. An exciting world where hardware and software meet human ingenuity to create genre bending, dance floor-shattering performances. The SCIM DJ facilities are both a tribute to the classic, vintage gear that defined the history of the profession, and a glimpse into the technologies that will shape its future.
Music Business
As the music and entertainment industries move rapidly toward a digital future, artists, performers, and records labels are being forced to find new, innovative ways to stay ahead of the pack. This course provides a fresh take on the legal, financial and entrepreneurial aspects of the entertainment industry.
Visual Arts
From logo and website design to 3D animation and VJing, the SCIM visual arts courses provide all the skills neccesary for graduates to make an impact in the highly competitive and dynamic graphic design and animation industries. After covering layout design, typography and software like Photoshop, Indesign and Flash, students enter the working environment capable of creating cutting edge designs that are fresh, innovative and ultra-high quality.
VJ'ing VJ'ing is one of the fastest growing industries of our times. Being highly specialized, running parallel with the latest technologies and visual manipulation software and hardware. The learner will be guided through the process of story-boarding, sourcing, editing, video remixing and capturing.

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SCIM Cubase Tutorial DVD

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Widely regarded as the world's most powerful DAW, Cubase contains a wealth of features for beginner, intermediate and advanced users alike. Everything from complex multitrack recording to cutting edge electronic music production is made untuitive and enjoyable by this supremely powerful sequencer!

These tutorials, presented by prolific local producer Ryan Murgatroyd, will unearth and explain everything you will need to know to compose, record, produce, arrange and edit any genre of music with Cubase. After several years at the forefront of the South African music technology industry - Ryan and the Soul Candi Edu Media team dig deep into their comprehensive knowledge of every aspect of the music production process to bring you some of the most detailed and useful Cubase tutorials on the market. This edition has a focus on techniques for modern and urban genres like house, dance and hip hop.

The SCIM retail price is: R 295.00 (Delivery excluded)

If you would like to order one of these tutorial DVD's either call us, email us or visit either campus to buy your copy today.

 

Ableton Live DJ

Course Info CT - DJ courses

Ableton Live 8 is the only solution designed for every facet of DJ'ing and Live performance. This entry-level course covers all the real-time features that make Ableton Live the favourite tool of the world's top DJ's

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Course Details

  • Enrolling now
  • Length: 6 weeks
  • Lecture Frequency: Twice a week
  • Fee: R 4'900.00 (incl. VAT)

TOPICS COVERED

  • Introduction to Ableton Live (GUI, browser, mixer and clip editor)
  • Importing and managing clips / mixer basics / MIDI commands
  • Warp markers and warping techniques
  • Customizing MIDI setup, controllers and signal flow
  • Mixing functions: EQ, cross-faders
  • Plugins, effects and audio processing
  • Recording, Exporting and Rendering[/important]
 

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Emile Oudejans a.k.a. Emoutikon (ee~mo~tee~kon) first came across the art of producing dance music when he encountered his first production program, Ejay. From there on he was hooked and has been producing and honing his skill for 9 years. His love has always been house; listening to hours of it as a adolescent, but found his home with the new age sounds of Tech.

IMG_0265Blanka Mazimela aka DJ Blanka one of Cape Town's most aspiring up & coming producers. Having been featured with the likes of Black Coffee, Glen Lewis & Oskido just to name about a few. Currently playing Deep Soulful Tech house and unifying the Cape Town underground house scene in the most remote places.

 

 

 

ryanWithout a doubt the most accomplished composer, producer and engineer to ever come out of South Africa, Ryan has amassed an almost endless list of world-wide chart toppers(Epic Flow, What u do to me), while balancing an extensive remix schedule for UK super-labels like Ministry of Sound, Cr2, Warner, and EMI.

 

willie elsWillie Els aka BioLogik / Pziezzo Electric managed to situate himself as one of South Afica's top Audio Engineers and Music Producers the past 8 years. Having won many remix titles, contributing to major mags such as BPM and still dominating many dancefloors with his infectious sounds; he manifested himself as a respected tutor in the industry as well.

Featured Students

DDTwo blonde bombshells, some seriously rocking tunes and a feverishly thumping dancefloor..this is what you get when she-jays Vanessa Holliday and Margaret Westergreen pair up to form the electrifying dance/club DJ act the 'DIGITAL DIVAS'.

kyle macleanOriginally from Durban and now currently living in cape town, kyle has always had a great passion for music and has been involved in the Dj scene ever since. Kyle has been Djing for nearly 3 years now and has found his style to be very jacking house and fidget house orientated but loves the sounds of progressive house and tech house and plays to please the crowd he is playing for.

anthea

Cape Town's Anthea without a doubt holds the record for the fastest growing DJ in South Africa. Her debut at Bang Bang, one of Cape Town's top nightclubs was very shortly followed by a residency. Her influence along with Raymond Bloom (X-Ray) and Chris Jack has set a stark contrast to Cape Town’s usual bland blend of everyday commercial banter.

daine moreIt’s safe to say HYPE Media’s newest signing, Daine More, is a rising star in the world of DJ’s. He undoubtedly holds the record for being one of the fastest growing DJ’s in South Africa – making a solid name for himself in the cutting edge, cosmopolitan city of Cape Town. 

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P&P

Pascal Ellinas and Dave Pearce met in February 2007 - sharing a mutual love for all things electro, neither of them could have predicted what would follow. The first six months were slow, filled with lots of experimental sounds and ideas. However, with Pascals' master skills on the decks and Daves' knowledge of music, they soon combined to create one of the most powerful forces in South African electro.

euphonikArguably one of South Africa's most sought after DJ's and recently included in the Mail & Guardian's Top 300 young South Africans, Themba Nkosi aka Euphonik has scaled the ranks of DJ, producer and radio presenter territory in a n incredibly short space of time. He has achieved in a few years what others spend a lifetime working towards and his continued succes is built on a solid foundation of perseverance and good work ethics.

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