Ableton Live for Performance with Gareth Fry

Gareth Fry  will be looking at the ways Ableton Live can be used for performance, for example for interactive music playback, as an audio FX processor, as a looper, and as a sound design create tool. Gareth ran our popular Ableton Live for Beginners course, which is still available online, and will be demonstrating some of the projects he’s used Ableton on since then, such as The Encounter and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child..

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Gareth Fry is a multi award winning sound designer, best known for his cutting-edge work in theatre, and his collaborations with many leading UK theatre directors and companies.

Awards include an Olivier Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; a Special Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Helpmann Award and an Evening Standard Award for The Encounter (with co-designer Pete Malkin); an Olivier Award and Helpmann Award for Black Watch; an Olivier Award for Waves. and an IRNE Award for Wild Swans.

He is a specialist in the use of binaural stereo sound, being involved in a number of theatre productions, VR, exhibitions and advertising campaigns, including for Bose, Volvo and Land Rover. 

His work includes over 20 productions at the Royal National Theatre, over 20 at the Royal Court and countless more at venues such as the Old Vic, Young Vic and in the West End.

He is a founder of, and former chairperson, of the Association of Sound Designers.

Gareth is an honorary fellow of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

He is the author of Sound Design for the Stage, published in 2019 by Crowood Press.

He has contributed to BBC Radio 4’s World at One, and the World Service, to talk about the use of sound.

Gareth initially trained as a studio recording engineer and spent two years working for AMS Acoustics on speech intelligibility modeling before moving into theatre.