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Mix Nights Online: Learning to Trust Your Instincts w/ Alex Rita
29th April 2025
7.30 pm BST
£8.30 or free for Sustainer & Soulmate Saffron members
Saffron’s monthly workshops are part of the Saffron Members Club, but non-members who are women, non-binary people, trans or gender non-conforming folks may also purchase a ticket.
LEARNING TO TRUST YOUR INSTINCS
These days, we are often taught to doubt our intuition, when what we need to guide us creatively can be found within.
In our next Mix Nights Online session, Alex Rita will host a workshop exploring the role of instinct and flow in selecting and curating DJ mixes.
Using one of her Calm Roots sets as an example, she will take us through her process for preparing radio shows, focusing on the intrinsic importance of feeling and listening to her approach.
Drawing on her experiences balancing a music career and motherhood, she will also share how becoming a parent has informed how she approaches her creative practice.
If you’ve ever felt like today’s music industry moves at an unnatural pace, join us for a relaxed discussion and a chance to reconnect with a more elemental rhythm.
ABOUT ALEX RITA
ALEX RITA is the Copenhagen-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist, DJ, mother and creative director of TOUCHING BASS and CALM ROOTS founder. A natural communicator, she has gradually built a cult following for her intentional practice, which spans music, illustration and sewing.
As a DJ, the combination of a childhood spent in Danish nature and over a decade in London have instilled a passion for the organic, percussive and deeply soulful. It’s an approach which has brought her across four continents; from some of Europe’s finest dancefloors and East Africa to multiple tours of Oceania and Asia.
Beyond the club space, her work continues to guide listeners deeper into themselves. CALM ROOTS – which started as a regular, two-hour NTS Radio exploration of the meditative corners of her collection – centres introspection, rest and slow living through a synthesis of performance, DJ sets and holistic health.
Her practice has led to commissions for Lisson Gallery, Tate Modern, The White Cube, and We Out Here festival, as well as collaborations with Nala Sinephro (Warp Records) and sound therapist, Rahel Debebe-Dessalegne
Alongside her partner, Errol, she is also the main force behind Touching Bass – the South London-based musical community, club night, concert series (at The Barbican), award-nominated record label, staple NTS Radio show (reaching over 3m monthly unique listeners) and curatorial/creative studio.
Her work has been recognised by the likes of i-D, Refinery29, The Guardian, CRACK, BBC Radio, Japan’s POPEYE and The Face among others.
Instagram – Soundcloud – RA
ACCESSIBILITY
We never want money to be a barrier to people accessing music tech, so if you are unable to afford a ticket but believe you would benefit from attending these workshops, please email us on members@saffronmusic.co.uk.
Workshops are open to people worldwide, but will be running at 7.30 pm GMT so please bear differences in time zone in mind. If you purchase a ticket but are unable to attend live, you will automatically be emailed a recording of the workshop(s) after the event.
We are committed to making our online events as accessible as possible. We have created a guidance document about this – Click here to view the accessibility document. Alternatively, please email us with any access requirements you may have: hello@saffronmusic.co.uk
GENDER POLICY
The gender imbalance in the music technology industry is well-recognised. While we are absolutely not ‘anti-men’, we see that a shorter-term solution is to provide fellowship and learning environments that are not dominated by the cisgender male perspective. Therefore, these workshops are intended for women, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming people to attend. While we do not ban cisgender men from attending, we hope that they will respect that this event is not intended for them.
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