Sonic Vistas is a project from Ivan Riches, funded by Arts Council England which involved bringing disabled artists, musicians and film-makers together for an exciting cross-artform performance at Liberty Festival […]
At Drake Music we are very aware of the number of barriers disabled musicians face when recording music, and the fact that there simply aren’t enough facilities which are accessible. […]
Earlier this year Drake Music took part in the Web We Want festival at the Southbank Centre in London. We held a hackathon to create new accessible instruments and also […]
As part of our Research and Development programme we are collaborating on the Mi.Mu Gloves project initiated by Imogen Heap. The gloves use cutting edge technology to create a wearable […]
A beginning: It started with a tweet and 2 years later the alliance is still going strong…… I answered a call out from Drake Music in early 2013 for disabled musicians interested in cross-arts collaboration and never imagined the journey it would take me on
Kilele: Rhythms from East London is a cross-artform Learning and Participation project. We are working with 3 schools in Tower Hamlets to tell the story of their neighbourhood through characters […]
James is a conductor with a clear artistic vision – really the only thing that is stopping him is that so far his baton is not working as well as it could be.
Welcome to the second of our blog posts exploring the work of our Research and Development team. The R&D work we do is all about supporting the creation of new […]
Today I spoke to Gawain Hewitt who is National Programme Manager for Research and Development at Drake Music.
After two and a half years my contracted work with Drake Music, providing social media support, has come to an end.