LAB RATS x ANDREW LANG: Creating Live Visuals with Ableton Live & Videosync [Workshop]

Welcome to LAB RATS!

ILA is excited to announce our 2025 series of hands-on workshops with a focus on creative tech, shared learning and interdisciplinary collaboration.


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In this compact 1-week workshop, musician Andrew Lang presents an overview of Videosync – a visual engine for Ableton Live that allows users to treat video with the same processes as audio.

Andrew will explore how approaches to music production in Ableton Live can be quickly translated to video design and the potential interactions of video and audio within the software.

Designed for musicians with an existing understanding and familiarity with Ableton Live, participants will learn how the Videosync software can be implemented with live performance via Ableton to create dynamic and reactive visuals.


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***Week 1 [Tues, October 7th]:

Creating Live Visuals with Ableton and Videosync

Participants will explore Videosync in Ableton Live to create reactive, dynamic visuals that can accompany live music performances, using the same approach for manipulating video as they would audio in Ableton.

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FREE entry with registration

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Doors Open = 5:00pm

Workshop = 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Networking = 7:00pm - 7:45pm

Close = 8:00pm

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Requirements:

· Laptop (view requirements: https://tinyurl.com/43v92unn )

· Ableton Live full version (11/12 suite, or 11/12 Standard with Max for Live)

· Videosync (free trial: https://tinyurl.com/yc3dfmpb )

· Prior knowledge (participants are recommended to have a solid understanding of Ableton fundamentals – effect racks, automation, etc. )

· Video Content (please provide a piece of video content to work with)


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Who is Andrew Lang?

Andrew Lang (he/him) is a composer & noisemaker living on Kaurna land in Adelaide, Australia. His work encompasses elements of ambient, drone, shoegaze, and contemporary classical music, to explore the illusory and emotional nature of sound.

Andrew utilizes a range of resources in his work including live and electronic instrumentation, reactive visuals, field recordings, tape, found sounds, and live reamplification, often heavily processed to draw out unusual and unfamiliar characteristics in the source material.

Andrew has composed several full-length solo records, in addition to works for films and live performance. His music is known for being contemplative, subtle, emotional and at times deeply moving.

Website: http://www.andrewlang.net

Bandcamp: http://www.andrewlangmusician.bandcamp.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewlangmusician/


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What is Lab Rats?

Lab Rats is ILA’s public program focused on creative tech, shared learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration as a series of workshops, artist presentations, networking sessions, and discussion panels.

With an emphasis on developing creative communities, Lab Rats fosters a network of emerging and established artists, providing opportunities for participants to upskill, reskill and learn new skills, build portfolios and make connections that expand creative and career prospects within the creative industry.


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The Lab acknowledges that we are meeting, creating and working on the traditional land of the Kaurna People. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage beliefs and relationship with the land. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.

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