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About the Course
SAEL is not just a music production course — it is a deeper engagement with sound, listening, and self-expression.
In a landscape where music is often shaped by speed, trends, and external validation, this course offers a different approach. It invites you to slow down, listen inward, and build a more meaningful relationship with the music you create.
Using Ableton Live as our primary tool, you’ll learn the fundamentals of production — sound design, arrangement, and mixing — while also exploring how ideas emerge, evolve, and take form through personal experience.
The course balances technical understanding with creative inquiry, encouraging you to move beyond replication and towards developing your own voice.
Working in small studio batches, you’ll engage in guided exercises, listening sessions, and hands-on practice — gradually building a workflow that feels intuitive and your own.
By the end of the course, you won’t just know how to produce music — you’ll begin to understand why you create, and how to shape sound with intention and clarity.
What You'll Experience
Small Studio Batches
Work closely with the instructor in intimate groups, allowing space for dialogue, feedback, and focused learning.
Ableton Live, Hands-on
Learn music production directly within Ableton Live — building projects, experimenting with sound, and developing a practical, working understanding of the software.
Listening & Creative Development
Engage in guided listening sessions and exercises that help you make more intentional creative decisions.
Sound Design & Exploration
Move beyond presets to explore synthesis, sampling, and texture — shaping sound in a way that begins to feel personal.
Listening & Creative Awareness
Engage in guided listening sessions and reflective exercises that deepen how you hear, interpret, and make decisions in music.
Exercises in Expression
Work through prompts and practices that encourage openness, helping you create with more honesty and less hesitation.
Feedback & Mentorship
Receive consistent, thoughtful feedback on your work — supporting both your technical growth and creative direction.
Build Your Own Work
Develop original pieces throughout the course, gradually forming a workflow you can carry forward independently.
Ready to begin your journey with sound?
Whether you’re just starting out or returning to music,
you’re welcome in the studio.
Course Modules
A progression from learning tools to shaping a personal, expressive practice in music production.
Foundations of Music Production
Begin with the fundamentals of sound and learn to navigate Ableton Live, working with MIDI, audio, basic theory, and simple arrangements.
Expression & Openness
Engage in guided exercises and reflections that encourage honest, uninhibited creation beyond technical boundaries.
Creative Systems
Learn to organise your workflow, use tools effectively, and build a sustainable, long-term creative practice.
Develop a structured approach to building tracks using automation, sampling, MIDI effects, and efficient workflow techniques.
Workflow & Arrangement
Artistic Identity
Develop your own voice by exploring intention, emotion, and personal direction within your music.
Building Your Work
Translate ideas into complete pieces, developing structure, narrative, and cohesion in your projects.
Sound Design & Mixing
Explore synthesis, resampling, and audio processing while learning to mix and prepare your work with clarity and balance.
Listening & Context
Understand music through deeper listening, references, and observation across different forms and disciplines.
Performance & Presentation
Extend your work into live and visual contexts, shaping how your music is experienced beyond the DAW.
From the studio, in their words
A hands-on introduction to pottery through hand-building. Learn how clay moves, responds, and transforms as you shape your own ceramic forms.
Dishika
Transitioning into Music Production
"The production course was an incredible experience, especially as someone transitioning from medicine to music production. It felt both grounding and empowering. Ishan’s mentorship balanced technical depth with creative guidance, helping me build a strong foundation while finding the confidence to develop my own sound and voice"
Developing their sound as an artist
Yash
"Taking Ishan’s music production course was a really important step in my journey as a producer. The course is structured in a way that makes both the technical and creative sides of production easy to understand. As someone still finding my sound this course gave me a lot of clarity and confidence"
Live Performer . One on One Online Batch Student
Anjan
"Starting out in music production can be overwhelming, but Ishan made the learning curve feel seamless. Since we started working together in 2024, his guidance has helped me move from basic loops to fully realized arrangements. If you're looking for a mentor who is patient, knowledgeable, and truly invested in your sound, I can’t recommend Ishan enough"
Your Instructor
Ishan Gaur
Multimedia artist · Music producer · Founder, Safar Collective
I7HVN [ish-an] is a multimedia artist from India whose work brings together sound and visual storytelling to create immersive, narrative-driven experiences.
His sonic palette moves across Techno, Electro, and IDM, while also extending into more atmospheric spaces through Electronica and Ambient music.
In 2021, he founded Safar Collective — a community of artists exploring experimental practices as a means of self-expression. The collective focuses on nurturing boundary-pushing work and building a self-sustaining ecosystem for artists working beyond conventional forms.
As an instructor, his approach bridges technical knowledge with creative exploration — encouraging students to not only learn production, but to develop their own voice and way of working with sound.
