Electronic Music Club

We’re incredibly honored to have Electronic Music Club featured in Portland Mercury this week ❤️

Over the past five years, EMC has grown into a program that helps students explore music production, songwriting, synthesis, and creative technology through hands-on learning in schools across the Portland area.

We’re so grateful to our students, families, instructors, school partners, and PTAs for helping us build such an amazing creative community.

Special thanks to Portland Mercury and Kendall Porter for the thoughtful feature.

Read the full article here:

After-School Programming Never Sounded So Good - Portland Mercury After-School Never Sounded So Good by Kendall Porter looks at the Electronic Music Club after-school program. Music Issue 2026.

Students in Electronic Music Club spend a lot of time working in Lives’s Session View, and it ends up being one of the most powerful ways to understand how music actually works.

Each column represents a different part of a song. Drums, bass, chords, melody. Instead of thinking about music as one big thing, students start to see how these pieces fit together and interact.

Using Launchpads, they can trigger and combine these parts in real time. It turns into a hands-on way to explore timing, arrangement, and structure, almost like building a song out of Lego pieces.

One of my favorite parts is that it pulls students away from the screen a bit. They are still using professional software, but they are playing the music with their hands, making decisions in the moment, and hearing the results instantly.

It is creative, interactive, and a really fun way to start thinking like a producer.

Turn curiosity into creativity 🎧

At Electronic Music Club Summer Camp, students create their own music using real tools like Ableton Live and hands on hardware. From beats to full songs, they build skills, confidence, and something they are proud of.

Spots are filling quickly and several weeks are already full

Explore camp dates in Portland and Oregon City and save your spot today!

🎛️ Electronic Music Club Summer Camp is coming to Eugene!

This August, students will spend a full week learning how to create their own music using digital instruments, synths, and production software. No prior experience needed, just curiosity and creativity.

Campers will learn how to:

🎧 Make beats 
🎹 Play digital instruments
🎚️ Arrange and mix their own tracks
💻 Use professional music production software
🔊 Share their finished music with the group

Two separate week-long camps:

📅 Week 1: August 3 – August 7
📅 Week 2: August 10 – August 14
⏰ 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 First Congregational United Church of Christ — Eugene

Each camp has a different creative theme, so students can join one or both weeks.
Spots are limited to keep the classes small and hands-on.

👉 Registration is open now

We’re honored to be named one of PDX Parent’s Top 5 After-School Enrichment Programs for 2026! 🎶

A huge thank you to the families who voted for us and to the amazing students who show up each week ready to experiment, collaborate, and make music together.

From building beats on Launchpads to exploring modular synths and producing original tracks, it’s incredible watching students discover how creative music technology can be.
Moments like these are exactly why we started Electronic Music Club.

Thank you to the Portland community for continuing to support music, creativity, and curious young producers.

✨ Spring session registration is now open! (check the link in our bio to find our list of schools!)

When kids are disappointed there’s no EMC…

you know you’ve built something special.
Proud of our students and community!

This is why we do it. 🎧💙

🎧 INTERMEDIATE MUSIC PRODUCERS — THIS ONE’S FOR YOU.
Ready to level up?

Our Intermediate Music Production Camp is built for 4th grade and up students who already know the basics and are hungry for more.
In this camp, students dive deep into:
✨ Synthesis & sound design (with pro tools like Vital)
✨ Advanced beat-making & production workflows
✨ Real hardware controllers
✨ Studio-style creative projects

And yes — every student gets a Novation Launchpad to keep. 🎹🔥
So the learning doesn’t stop when camp ends.
This is for motivated, curious, serious young producers who want a real challenge and real creative growth.

🎯 Three separate sessions
📍 Portland & Oregon City