11/07/2025
Create Like a Child with Matthew Dear at CAMP 🪁
This music creation workshop running September 6 - October 4 encourages participants to reconnect with the instinctive joy of sound-making. Inspired by Picasso’s quote - “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child” - we’ll explore how to forget what we know and make music as a form of play and emotional release.
Learn more and book on the CAMP site.
Participants will work with DAWs, plugins, and sound tools, but in ways that strip back polish and precision. We’ll explore limitation, found sound, and playful constraints to open up new creative paths. The aim is to shift from outcome-focused production to process-focused exploration. Mistakes, noise, and rawness are welcome. At the end of the workshop, you’ll have the option to contribute a piece to a digital compilation for CAMP Editions curated by Matthew Dear, and a CAMP Radio show featuring excerpts from the sessions, audio diaries, and artist reflections.
Matthew Dear began making music in his teens after discovering electronic artists such as Depeche Mode and Nitzer Ebb. By the late 1990s he was active in Detroit’s warehouse rave scene, producing techno tracks on an Ensoniq sampler. While attending college, Matthew met Sam Valenti IV at a house party and became the first artist signed to Valenti’s Ghostly International label. His debut release for Ghostly was a split 12” with Dave “Disco D” Shayman, featuring the track “Put Your Hands Up For Detroit,” later sampled into a #1 international hit. Under his Audion alias, Matthew helped launch Ghostly’s Spectral Sound imprint with multiple techno singles, and two decades later released work on Carl Craig’s Planet E label as Brain. He has collaboroated with and remixed for artists including Ricardo Villalobos, Protomartyr, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, MGMT, and more.