Workshop with Sega Bodega (May '26)

In May 2026, Sega Bodega led a four-week School of Song workshop on production, songwriting, and the life around them. A producer and songwriter who co-founded NUXXE, collaborates closely with Shygirl, and makes up half of Kiss Facility alongside Mayah Alkhateri, Sega teaches with total transparency, opening his Logic sessions and naming his plugins as he traces exactly how his songs get made, in keeping with his refusal to gatekeep his own process.

Class 1: Would the Idea Choose You? begins with where ideas come from. Sega shares his belief that ideas live somewhere outside us and choose the people ready to receive them, illustrated by strange true stories of the same idea arriving to different people at once, and by his own experience of the ideas arriving once he learned to loosen his grip. The class then turns practical, with Logic breakdowns of songs from his own catalog and a case for emulation: recreating the music you love, element by element, as the fastest way to grow.

Class 2: Concepts: Songs Reflecting Life is about building a song's meaning into the production itself. Through two of his own songs whose central ideas live in the production rather than the lyrics, the class examines how a concept can shape a song in ways a listener feels without ever being told. Everything is demonstrated live in Logic, from reverb as a conceptual tool to why plugin order matters, down to the way he finds vocal melodies he never would have sung on his own.

Class 3: Working Under Time Restraints is a real-time demonstration of his process. Building a beat live from recordings he made on his phone, Sega moves through his five stages of song creation, from combing through samples for glitches and artifacts to arranging, editing, and mixing, narrating the decisions as he makes them. The class covers how he decides which ideas deserve to survive, the mechanics of parallel compression and headroom, and the discipline of finishing quickly rather than perfectly.

Class 4: Taking Us Into Your World is about what happens to the music after it's made. Sega talks through releasing on your own terms: planning a rollout around the fact that the first announcement is the loudest, owning your rights and staying independent, and finding your people, drawn from the story of building a collective with his closest collaborators. The class also covers money, burnout, and the crash that can follow achievement, and the advice all points back to the same place: protecting the conditions that let you keep making music.

Testimonials from May 2026 Students:

Salvador, you truly changed the way I feel, sense and create around music. I can't thank you enough for the motivation, creativity flow and knowledge you have shared during this course. From the raw reality and the peaks of the artist way, I see it now, gracias. 

When I became interested in making my own music, I felt really frustrated for a while because I really wanted to make something good and unique but didn’t like anything I created. I have put so much pressure on myself and this course helped me get into a better headspace with my creative process and approach to producing. To trust the process and not take things so seriously to the point of paralysis and fear. Thank you so much :) It was such a transformative experience. The breath and depth of the information discussed was incredible.