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. ...

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.