Ableton Live as a Performative Ecosystem: Building Dynamic Workflows for a Flexible Live Set with Noémi Büchi

Composer and sound artist Noémi Büchi creates cross-genre musical structures defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstraction; work that contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption, emphasizing irregularities in an expansive listening experience. Her most recent album Exuvie (2026) maps the processes through which the body absorbs, remembers, and transforms. A performer at MUTEK this edition, she opens up the architecture behind that practice in this masterclass.

Büchi unpacks one of her complete performance Ableton Live Sets as a case study to explore how Live can function not only as a DAW, but as a compositional, performative, and organizational environment for live electronic music. She explores how sampling, resynthesis, and granular processing keep pre-composed material alive in performance, and how sound categories such as rhythmic, textural, harmonic, noisy, transitional, can be organized for dramaturgical development.

Basic to advanced knowledge of Ableton Live required. Bring a laptop with Ableton Live installed.

Please note that this activity takes place off-site at DASA: 65 Rue Ontario O, Montréal. The activity is in English only, without live transcription nor translation.

Limited capacity — RSVP via the MUTEK Forum app, registrations open August 13. Extra spots available 15 min before, first come first served.

Please note: This activity will be in English only, without live transcription nor translation. During the event, no interpreter for the Deaf will be present.