DJing
After a very brief introduction we get the young people behind the decks trying out what they’ve just seen and heard. We guide them through different techniques. A tutor will stand where the audience would be so they have full control and access to the decks (as they would at a gig). We provide Vinyl and CD turntables. We maybe suggest different songs/styles young people could mix. For example a...
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Production & Recording
We use laptops with programs that allow us to build/write a piece of music. We usually start with drums, building the song by placing ‘blocks’ (visual representation of recorded sounds) of single drum hits BOOM, CLICK, CLAP etc until we have created a good rhythm. The Defcon Team will do most of the technical stuff while participants choose the style of music and tempo they want. Then they choose what...
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MCing & Creative Writing
Often as an icebreaker we sit with the young people and create spontaneous rhymes based around their names. This is fun and shows that being funny is more original and effective than aggressive and moody “gangster rap”. Then, having got the young people to develop on their name-based lyrics, we might get them to brainstorm a topic that interests them and concentrate on this (spider diagrams are useful...
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Singing
Singing workshops use experienced vocalists to share their exercises and techniques with students. Students will learn to warm up their voices and will engage is some group singing. This workshop can be combined with a production/recording session where we record vocals along with...
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Graffiti Art
We have been successfully running workshops in and around the south east of england for the past 6 years. With over 40 years experience between our artists in the graffiti scene, we have been there, done that and made our own t-shirts! We can offer a range of graffiti workshops that can be specifically tailored to meet your budget, time constraints and needs of the participants. We have worked with...
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Clothing Customisation
Clothing customisation workshops can run along side, after, or seperately from the stencil workshops. The focus here is applying designs to various articles of clothing; t-shirts, caps, trainers, jeans, jumpers etc.. anything worn can be customised and completely personalised. The feedback to these workshops has been great. Everyone goes home with a smile on their face and an item of clothing that no...
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