Based on hybrid setups developed within the German research project lernen:digital, this workshop explores how hybrid music-making can foster shared participation, creativity, and collective authorship in music education. Drawing on the concept of the post-digital (Clements 2018; Buchborn & Treß 2023), the workshop addresses material, bodily, and digital dimensions of music-making and illustrates how hybrid setups can provide low-threshold access to it. This approach represents a relevance to everyday life, serving as a common language for building musical community in the classroom (Gerland & Niediek 2022; Werner & Rotsch 2025) and for connecting to diverse youth cultures (Treß 2024).

In our 90min-workshop, participants rotate through three hands-on stations and engage in performative and artistic actions with interactive, inclusive, and implementable setups (Schaubruch & Feneberg 2026). Each setup invites exploration, co-creation, and reflection – for instance, on questions of shared control, agency, and authorship.

1. DJing, VJing & LJing: combining music, moving images, and light in a collaborative performance inspired by popular music and club culture. Participants experience how sonic, visual, and spatial dimensions intertwine within a hybrid setup.
2. Playtronica & Everyday Objects: making music through touch and connection. Using Playtronica devices, everyday materials and even physical contact become interfaces for triggering and shaping sound.
3. Synths & Sonification: exploring organic and environmental interactions with sound. Participants use devices to integrate plants, light, or motion sensors into music-making – creating evolving, responsive soundscapes.

The workshop provides practical strategies for designing participatory, hybrid music lessons that embody democratic values. It offers inspiration for developing individual or combined setups that can be adapted to diverse teaching contexts. At the same time, it highlights both challenges and opportunities of hybrid music-making to democratize classroom practice – by enabling students to listen, negotiate, and act together across human, technological, and aesthetic boundaries.