The Birdcage Producer Meet-up

Martijn and Dom bring decades of experience in ambient, electronic and experimental music to explore a simple question: how much can you create with very little?

Martijn comes from long-running ambient project Cinema Perdu, while Dom draws on a background spanning dance music, experimental electronics and classical crossover.

For this producer meetup, they’ll share an approach built around limitation, close listening and curiosity. Using a small set of tools, they’ll explore ways of generating rhythm, melody and texture without unnecessary complexity or layers.

The focus is on music-making as a deliberate, meditative practice: listening, responding, allowing ideas to develop, and knowing when enough is enough.

In the Producer Meet-up sessions, we open our doors to producers who are experienced with working inside or outside "the box" and want to expand their knowledge and network, though of course, enthusiastic newcomers are more than welcome to join. In future editions we will…