DJ Academy

DJ Academy will happen in the auditorium!

Remember to bring a USB stick with the music you want to use!

Are you into music mixing ? Are you the go-to person for new music? Want to learn a little about DJing ? Or maybe you're already an accomplished DJ? Then you have the opportunity to show off at this year's The Gathering! 

This year. Battery, Universal Music and The Gathering launch "DJ Academy: powered by Battery"! There will be courses, live mixing with CDJs and mixing with applications like Serato , Ableton Live and Traktor . A unique opportunity to find a program you will learn the basics or expand even more in the program you already know well.

The seminars / workshops will be held on Wednesday from 16:00 to 20:00 with about an hour for each program. The leaders of the workshops are experts in their respective programs and will both go through the basic functionality, advanced functionality and give you some "tips and tricks". 

Thursday from 16.00 to 18.00 there will be held a contest with live mixing on CDJs . Here, each participant have 15 minutes at their disposal. Participants can play music from all genres they like , but they must mix a minimum of three songs within their 15-minute set. A jury will judge sets the participants topics based on three areas; track selection, mixing and technical execution. The prize is still a secret, but we can say so much that you do not need to add any plans for next Easter quite yet. Registration for this contest will be during the CDJs course to be held Wednesday at 16:00. It's a first-come, first served basis. 

Wednesday will go like this:

16.00 - 20.00 DJ Academy: powered by battery

DJ Ash Valley goes through how to mix with CDJs. Note It will be used pioneer rekordbox and it is recommended that everyone makes sure to familiarise with it. It is freeware and can be downloaded from www.pioneerelectronics.com.

Ferris shows you some of what you can do with Traktor

Miu takes a quick tour on how he uses Ableton to prepare songs for a set.

About the speakers

DJ Ash Valley jobs daily at Universal Music and DJ 's often in Oslo's nightlife world. He has played in places such as The Villa , Fish and Wildlife and Jäger , where he has worked to book into some of the biggest house DJs. 

Ferris is a 22-year-old EDM powerhouse hailing from the idaho wilderness and taking Oslo by storm. He's produced everything from ambient soundscapes to hard hitting Super Nintendo riffs, and now he's here to share his experience with the powerful and easy-to-use traktor dj platform. 

Miu has more than 16 years experience in the studio, and has recorded music for happy people in eight years. He has worked with anything from live sound and rock bands to electronica, film and television sound, video games, systems and acoustics. He has also played with several of Holland's biggest DJs, and is close to the international artists like Pegboard Nerds and the American music industry.