Wednesday Day 1
Introduction, Presentation of the Schedule, Outline the Retreat
3pm Opening Ceremony: Collective Altar (working Cacao) to share and write down their visions and dreams
Sharing Circle, Breaking the Ice Practices (with Luana), connect the group
collaborative Sound Journey after Dinner
Thursday Day 2: Creative Foundation
Breakfast 8 – 9am
9:15 – 10:15 Embodiment & Activation (Yoga into Dance Flow) with Luana
Breathwork
10:30 – 12:30 Class Maywa & Steffen:
Connecting with and Channeling the Elements / Elementals
and Creating a Sound Journey from Scratch with Steffens fav Plugins & Sample Libraries
Learning Experience: Being out in Nature, tuning in, breathing and listening to the spirits and elementals of the land to get inspiration and guidance. We then take this inspiration in the studio and Steffen shows us how to channel the spirit of the elementals into a Sound Healing Journey in Ableton using his favourite plugins and Sample Libraries
Lunch 12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 14:30 Free Flow Collab time
15:00 – 17:00 Nature as inspiration: a creative approach to Field Recording , creating soundscapes and organic percussions & beats
Learning Experience: LO.Renzo his vision will share how tips and tricks how to use Ableton effects and plugins to turn field recordings into rich textures, layers and percussion samples from which can create organic and very unique beats that mark his signature sound.
17:00 – 19:00 Class 3 with Steffen Ki:
Steffen Ki creating your own Instruments in Ableton with Simpler and Sampler
Learning Experience : Steffen will show us how you can turn any recorded sound or sample (like a singing bowl for example) into a playable midi Instrument with Ableton’s Simpler & Sampler Devices
19:00 Dinner
20:00 – 21:30
Inner Dance Lion’s Gate edition with Andre & Floor
Friday Day 3 Expansion:
Breakfast 8 – 9am
9:15 – 10:15 Embodiment & Activation with Maywa:
The art of surrender, freeing the voice and listening
10:30 – 12:30 Class 1 with Luana:
“Deep Listening and Expanding Awareness of Sound”
Learning Experience: In this philosophical class Luana shares her passion for sound as a gateway to a spiritual experience. We learn and experience how sound can be perceived on a multi-dimensional level and we get deep into the metaphysics and spiritual dimension of sound.
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Free Flow Collab time
15:00- 17:00 Class with Xuqutopi
Mixing Fundamentals
Principles of audio engineering regarding mixing and gain-staging.
In the industry big artists in most cases have their own engineers for mixing. When starting out many great songs don’t make it because we lack in mixing skills. This course is designed to help you get the basics right by the use of correct gain-staging as well as using reference.
17:00 – 19:00 Class 3 with LO.Renzo & Luana:
Interactive Class with LO.Renzo & Luana contemplative Exercises , Project Example
Learning Experience: LO.Renzo will share a project example and explain his approach to creating a magical flow and captivating dynamic in an organic downtempo track while Luana shares practical tools to tune in deeper in the creation process
19:00 Dinner
20:00 – 21:00 Gong Sound Bath
Saturday Day 4 – Integration:
Breakfast 8 – 9am
9:15 – 10:15 Embodiment & Activation with Maywa & Luana:
10:30 – 12:30 Mose Masterclass (Live Performance & DJ Template)
Learning Experience: Mose will show us his unique approach for playing a hybrid Live/Dj-Set introducing his template that allows him to flow between Djing and performing his tracks live and collaborating with other artists within one Ableton set.
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Class with Xuqutopi
Acoustics & Mixing Reference
Learning Experience:
Studio rooms in most cases are not ideal and more often even worse. In this session Tom will share how we can make the best of our studio environment as well as how to optimize monitoring and critical listening on headphones.
15:00 – 17:00 Class with Steffen Ki
3D & Binuaral Audio techiques for an immersive experience beyond the stereo field
Binuaral Audio is a form of spatial audio using advanced psychoacustic modelling algorhythms with which the stereo field can be transformed into a large 3D space allowing for sounds to be placed around the listener rather then just left or right.
18:00 – 20:30 Mose Set & Cacao Dance
20:30 – 21:00
Collab Sound Journey to finish
21:00 Dinner
22:00 – 00:00 Concert with Lenka & Open Jam
- Secret Dance Floor w/ Nugi
11.08 – Sunday
8:00 – 10:00 Breakfast / Yoga with Lenka
10:00 – 12:00 Maywa & Steffen Ki Live / Kundalini Yoga w/ Nora Mazu
12:00 – 14:00 Elemental Dance with Luana Schwengber / Mose Q & A
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 18:00 Jam Session with all participants of the retreat & artists
18:00 – 20:00 CONSCIOUS CACAO RAVE by T.A.N.Z b2b Lost in Soma feat. Lov Lenka & Daniel
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
21:00 Bonfire & Life Music
12.08 – Monday
08:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 11:00 Good Bye Yoga with Sara Moana
11:00 – 12:00 Sound Journey with Martin & Marie
