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Distil is a gathering of musicians rooted in folk and traditional music, but who are interested in expanding their creative horizons into other other areas of musical practice. Distil, which was established in 2002, allows musicians to work with experienced practitioners from other music worlds: jazz, orchestral, contemporary, in a mutual exchange of ideas and experience.
The Distil Workshops take place at  New Lanark, a  World Heritage site with a  beautifully restored 18th century cotton mill village nestled in the spectacular south Lanarkshire valley in southern Scotland, close to the Falls of Clyde and less than an hour from Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Distil Electronic -New Lanark: 18th – 20th March 2011

Participants

Corrina Hewat
Amble Skuse
Angus Lyon
Barry Reid
Lori Watson
James Lindsay
Innes Watson
Mike Bryan
Duncan Lyle.

Workshop Leaders
Glasgow’s Tigerstyle – 2 brothers coming from a background of Punjabi Folk who use their traditions to make electronic music.

The outline for the weekend is:
Day 1 Intro to Steinberg Cubase & plugins Case Studies – Examples of work Tigerstyle have done using traditional Indian elements to make contemporary music.
Day 2 Recording Trad elements Composing song
Day 3 Finalising arrangement Effects Mixing

Have a listen to the final arrangements: