What happens when a centuries-old Yiddish folk song meets a synthesizer? How can a dusty archival recording become the heart of a dancefloor banger? What stories can we tell by blending the old with the new?

Come make Kleztronica in this interactive workshop! We’ll dive into how musicians use archival recordings of Yiddish traditional music to create electronic dance music. Together, we’ll explore how these sounds can carry political meaning, experiment with tools that fuse ancient melodies with modern production, and play with the edges where folklore meets the future. No production experience necessary—just a desire to explore!

Chaia is an electronic composer working at the intersection of Yiddish culture and electronic club music. She weaves archival Yiddish samples with techno and ambient frameworks, creating hybrid folkloric-electronic compositions that situate ancestral sound within global and liberatory rave ecologies.