We Are The Unheard's mission is

to provide accessible training and development support to gender minorities and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Our goal is to guide participants from the beginner stage to a professional career, aiming to significantly increase the representation of female-identifying producers and songwriters in the music industry.

Meet the Teachers

Eve

Eve Horne is a pioneering figure in the music industry with over 20 years of experience as a singer, songwriter, and producer.

As a mixed-race, gay, single parent from a council estate with Autism and ADHD, her diverse background enriches her advocacy.

Eve founded We Are The UNHEARD CIC to amplify underrepresented voices and promote gender equality.

She is an Ivor's Academy Senator and the first woman of color on the Music Producers Guild board.

In 2024, she was part of the Women In CTRL's Seat At The Table Report and a judge for the BRIT and Ivor's Awards. Eve's work significantly impacts the music industry.

Visit @eve_horne on Instagram for more.

Anna

Anna Lakatos, aka ANNA DISCLAIM, is a multi-talented electronic musician, singer, audio engineer, and educator based in London.

Active since 2014, she works as a recording and mix engineer, and music producer.

An Ableton Certified Trainer and University Lecturer, she specializes in object-based 3D sound and is pursuing postgraduate studies.

Anna has facilitated masterclasses at festivals like Dimensions and Outlook, and contributed to industry publications.

She authored 'The Music Producer’s Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11' and is working on her second book.

Visit annadisclaim.com for more.

Pops

Pops Roberts is a key player in the UK soul and electronic scenes, known as a producer, vocalist, and Ableton Certified Trainer.

Performing under the name Private Joy, she leads the ‘Lovescene’ collective with acclaimed releases on labels like WOLF Music and International Feel Ibiza.

Pops has collaborated with artists such as Ruf Dug and Zed Bias.

She mentors for the British Arts Council and Saffron Records, focusing on creative production strategies for vocalists.

Pops' innovative contributions continue to shape the music landscape.

Visit @pops_roberts on Instagram for more.

The Programme

Introduction to Ableton

2 hours
a week

For
8 weeks

via Zoom

3 In-person

networking events with masterclasses with industry professionals.

Join the Academy

Who can Join?

If you identify as:

Female

Non-binary

Trans woman

Gender Non-Conforming

Age 18+

Modules

The interface

Learn about how to navigate around Ableton Live including the browser, transport, and mixer sections.

MAKING YOUR MIDI EXPRESSIVE

Understanding two of Ableton Live Intro’s chance tools. Note chance and Velocity chance give you fun variations to your patterns, more dynamics and a more human feel.

BEATS - Drum Racks

Understanding Drum Rack, recording using your computer keyboard, quantizing and saving your project

recording & editing audio

Learn the different ways to record Audio, Mic connection and Audio Interfaces. understand comping, editing the audio & different warp modes.

melodies

Building your ideas quickly and layering sounds using Ableton Live Intro’s killer MIDI transformation tools.

sampling with Simpler

Time to have fun! Play around with other Live Intro’s stock sampler and understand internal sampling.

arrangement & automation

Arrange your project so you can perform it as a live jam from session view into arrangement view!

basic mixing

Learn how to create your mix and use creative effects processing to improve your sounds.

Join the Academy

What you will leave with

Understanding how you navigate your way around Ableton, being able to complete a track, understand how to use plugins and record your audio, understanding MIDI, Audio interfaces exporting your tracks.

Community access to private WATUA FB group

Industry insights

Eligible for Ableton Live Intro Licence

Flare Audio Merch

Join the Movement

Calling all female identifying people!

Get a T-shirt or Hoodie;

Take a photo wearing the T-shirt or hoodie;
Upload the photo to your socials, tag @weare_theunheard and use these hashtags:
- #iamoneoftheunheard
- #wearetheunheard
- #wesupporttheunheard
- #unheardacademy
- #wearetheunheardacademy

I am getting so much out of the We Are the unheard Academy. Thank you for helping me feel less alone on the journey of making music, believe that women can be music producers, and thank you for never making me feel stupid for asking questions.

Donna, WATU Academy
It was amazing! I want to say a big thank you to Eve for teaching us, for the gems and the jokes. This is the first time I've been able to understand Ableton and I'm looking forward to getting my ideas out there!

Kemi, WATU Academy
Being part of We Are the Unheard has been so good for me and my confidence. It's given me a great group of friends I can go to when I need advice and guidance when I need it.

Minnie, WATU Academy
Eve’s decades of experience in the music industry were evident in the creative yet practical guidance she gave for my Master’s project, all while creating an extremely welcoming and safe environment with her kindness, patience, and genuine interest in myself and my artistic improvement. Overall, having Eve tutor my final project was such a valuable addition to my MACMP experience.

Paolo Falcone, MA Creative Music Production
Eve provided unmatched feedback, support, and guidance during and outside of our sessions. She set realistic deadlines and always pushed me to go just a little bit further, while continually encouraging me to believe in myself and my art.

Georgie Turner, MA Creative Music Production
Eve guided me perfectly throughout the process of finishing my master’s in creative music production, her approach was respectful and her guidance was invaluable to me.

Bravo Nikolic, MA Creative Music Production
As guest supervisor for the MA Creative Music Production programme, Eve met one-to-one with four students throughout their final semester to help them develop their major projects that ranged electronic music production, audio-visual live performance and library music production. Eve generously shared decades of industry experience and music production knowledge. Her unwavering encouragement and specialised feedback assisted each student evolve their sonic signatures and production identity.

Dr. Lia Mice, Programme Leader MA Creative Music Production
Eve has been incredibly helpful as my practical supervisor for my final major project. She provided me with vital technical assistance and mixing advice which allowed me to complete my tracks on time and to a high standard. Even more importantly, she also helped me to feel reassurance and confidence in my own material, which can sometimes be a hard thing to maintain, and as a result of my meetings with her I feel that I was able to turn in a project which I am truly proud of.

Alex Hargreaves, MA Creative Music Production