Music and Audio Portfolio

I have recently been donating equipment and tech help to Mark Chalmers Twitch.TV DJ streams, Heavy Resistance Aberdeen and Disintegrate at Midnight Aberdeen . I have also been DJing regularly on these streams. I donated a large amount of my old DJ setup to Mark, because I wanted it to go to a good home. This helped Mark to build quite an impressive DJ setup in his small flat. I worked with him solving many IT support issues with his DJ laptop and streaming laptop, and other elements of his A/V setup, making sure that everything was configured in an optimal way for streaming and DJing. With Mark I spent a lot of time establishing a working consistent reliable Twitch.TV DJ stream through our 5G mobile phones, in the absence of a dedicated broadband connection in his flat. This was no small undertaking, given the limitations of available 5G bandwidth in Salford City Centre, latency problems with 5G, and the number of devices we were using that required reliable internet access as part of the stream. It involved configuring everything to use as little bandwidth as possible, monitoring the connection extensively, and sharing the connection through a mobile router using USB tethering on the 5G device. I used GenAI agents to process a large number of Mark’s previous set playlists, and order the tracks mentioned in order of frequency played, and created a TIDAL DJ streaming playlist that was easily accessible when DJing of all the tracks, sorted in frequency order. This allows for quick and easy access to the regular ‘floorfillers’ at a moments notice. I DJ’d as a guest DJ on the stream, receiving positive feedback for my track selection and mixing, and contributed towards the entertainment and general debauchery of the stream.

A picture of one of my DJing setups. I’m an experienced professional multi-genre DJ. I have excellent technical skills, good creative mixing skills including extensive use of stems and live mashups, combined with a strong ability to read the crowd and a deep and diverse music knowledge. Experience Twitch DJ - DJing on Mark Chalmers stream: https://twitch.tv/heavyresistanceabz every Friday at 11pm, playing rock and metal music. - 1 year Bar DJ – Manchester, UK – DJing multi-genre party music nearly every week in venues across Manchester, through a booking agency - www.anfieldagency.co.uk - 6 months Twitch DJ – Manchester, UK – Ran a successful weekly Twitch.TV online DJ stream at https://twitch.tv/DJDavidCraddock achieved Twitch Affiliate Status in the first month and now have over 500 followers, earning a fair amount for DJing every week, and also participating in charity events that raised thousands for charitable causes – 3 years Event DJ - BBC - DJing at several events while working as as software engineer for the BBC, including twice at an official BBC 6 Music ‘Introducing’ event - 1 year Wedding and Event DJ – Sussex Area – Working with a booking agent to DJ at weddings and other events. Responsible for setting up a full PA kit and lights, operating, DJing and entertaining – 1 year “The Pit, Crawley” / “PRIME Club Crawley” – Crawley, West Sussex – Resident DJ – DJing every week at this popular club night, usually as the prime-time DJ – 2 years “Guerrilla Rocks” – Brighton, East Sussex – Resident DJ – DJing every week at this popular club night, often as the prime-time DJ – 2 years “Club NME” – Brighton, East Sussex – Resident DJ – DJing every week at this popular club night – 1 year “Deviant” – Brighton, East Sussex – Photographer, general dogsbody, and occasional guest DJ - 2 years

I have a strong music and sound engineering technical element to my skillset, having built several novel DJ set-ups, several music studio builds, including dealing with acoustic challenges, digital streaming challenges, and have built my own modular synthesisers which included extensive research. My career in IT, software and as a technologist heavily intersects with this, for example: I spent 6 months in BBC R&D’s music department working on modelling binaural acoustic research algorithms. I also worked for several years on iPlayer, including some exposure to streaming technologies and broadcast engineering. ...

In tandem with decades of professional experience in DJing and production, I’m a firm believer in life-long music education, and have complimented my music work with a lot of formal and informal music education: I have studied 5 modules in music production and sound engineering focused on DJing and electronic music, one at Canterbury College , one at Manchester School of Electronic Music , and three of which have been at the internationally recognised music school: Point Blank Music School . I have also undertaken extensive self-study around DJing , Sound Design, Sound Synthesis and Modular Synthesisers . I have undertaken several 1-2-1 DJ lessons with a hugely experienced alternative music DJ icon and producer over the process of several months.

Output I have professionally composed, produced, mixed and mastered two albums, one single, and have released an EP with a collaborator. Production Examples: A single from my Socialist Synthesis ambient experimental project called ‘Rust Marks’ Remastering the Industrial Comedy classic ‘KOMPRESOR – KOMPRESSOR DOES NOT DANCE’ Production and mixing on the electronica EP ‘Unfinished Dreams’ as ‘Machines Move Mountains’ with collaborator Ellis Breen.