What we’re about
Welcome to Portland Music Producers!
We’re an inclusive community of music producers committed to finishing songs while uplifting each other. We are based out of Portland, OR, USA, but anyone is welcome.
Sign up here to receive our newsletter and join our forum on Discord*
*The Discord invite link will appear upon successfully filling out of the sign up form linked above. Our Discord server is where we do activities (e.g. challenges, collaboration, journals, production feedback), stay connected, and support each other throughout the week.
What is a Music Producer?
A music producer takes an artist's vision and turns it into recorded music.
In function they may play a number of roles on a music production team:
- Songwriter: Composing, instrumentation, arranging, and lyric writing.
- Beatmaker: Sound design, sequencing, and embellishment.
- Audio Engineer: Recording, editing, mixing, and mastering.
- Vocalist: Vocals are often the most integral part of a production.
- Player: Creating and performing instrumentation for the production.
- Spiritual Guide: Helps artists explore, and relieve blockages.
- Record Producer: In charge of delivering a finished product by deadline.
Group Goals:
- Finish songs
- Learn production techniques
- Grow our audiences
- Produce high-quality records ready for release, sync, or live performance
- Meet like-minded producers and grow together :)
Group Features:
Supportive Community
- Surround yourself with peers who uplift and inspire. Our community is a safe space where we celebrate both diverse backgrounds and diverse ideas. Share your victories. Share your struggles. Your fellow producers have your back.
Challenges and Collaboration
- Challenges - Weekly challenges, e.g. Explore the nuances of iconic sounds, the No Undo challenge, genre soup, goal mapping, vision boarding, make a song inspired by a favorite piece of art. And larger challenges, e.g. take on the roles of different music production archetypes as we match and help each other finish projects. Together, we share our discoveries in a collaborative learning setting.
- Build-a-Beat - Weekly community-wide collab where everyone can add one layer as we build up a piece of music together.
Journaling
- Explore your own individual journal space to log any thoughts, audio, struggles, works in progress, discoveries, clippings, (whatever you like, it's yours!). And get a truly inspiring window into your fellow producer's processes via their own journal entries!
Events and Calls
- Weekly video call touchbase
- Monthly in-person meetups at local recording studios (Portland, OR, USA)
- Session breakdown calls, where producers breakdown what went into a production
Roadmap:
- ✅ Phase 1: Connect and support each other virtually.
- We are currently connecting every Monday at 6p on calls.
- ✅ Phase 2: Plan our first in person meetups.
- ✅ Phase 3: Introduce more elaborate workshops, collaborative projects and more.
Your input will shape the direction we take.
If this sounds interesting join us – let’s turn our musical dreams into a reality together!
Feel free to holler with any questions or to chat. :)
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Producer’s Roundtable: Share. Solve. Grow.North Portland Library, Portland, OR
Come hang out with fellow music producers for an evening of sharing techniques, workflows, and breakthroughs.
This session is all about peer learning and creative problem-solving, so bring your laptop!
Whether you’re a beginner, professional, or some where in the middle, this meetup is for producers of all levels to exchange tips, tackle roadblocks, and explore what it takes to create and finish great tracks.
We'll go out for drinks and grub after the event! :)
Location:
North Portland Library, Large Community Room 2A
512 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97217Portland Music Producers is an inclusive community of recording artists, producers, and engineers committed to growing our craft while uplifting each other. In addition to monthly studio meetups, we stay connected in our online community on Discord, where we do music challenges, collaboration, and other fun. To join or receive the email newsletter visit: https://linktr.ee/portlandmusicproducers
- Music Production Weekly TouchbaseLink visible for attendees
Connect with fellow music producers in this weekly video call.
We discuss what we've been working on, our goals for the week, and what we've learned from any recent music production challenges that we've participated in together.
It's hard trying to be a successful artist, engineer, or producer all on your own. Encouragement and help from your community is so important. These calls in particular help remove blockages, provide accountability, build relationships, and move us forward together.
The call takes place within the social platform Discord here*. There is always a group of people that show up to this every week that do not RSVP via meetup, so don't get discouraged by low numbers here.
*If it's your first time on Discord give yourself 5 minutes to sign up.
Hope to see you there!
