How do we as disabled Artist/Musicians, living in London, connect and collaborate and make music more accessible? Drake Music & Shape Arts event Thursday 7th March 11.30am – 4.30pm at Shape Arts Popup Gallery, London.
This is the final part of my trilogy of blog entries on the subject of multi-outcome projects. In the very short term just gone, we decided to combine the two models of music session that we have been using at CEDA up until now (group / ensemble music making using a combination of mainstream instruments and AMT and 1:1 music production sessions on the aforementioned Assistive Music Technology workstation) into a group recording session.
Hello. As this is my first blog post on my newly-created Drake Music blog I wanted to introduce myself and share what I am working on for Drake Music.
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to deliver Disability Equality Training (DET) to music tutors working for Mayo Music Education Partnership in the Republic of Ireland.
We’re creating something unique and we’d like to invite you to get involved and co-create it together.
Ofsted’s failure to visit special schools in their recent report undermines the vision laid out in the National Plan.
Richard has written about five different chord progressions now. They have a style and sound that I would expect from a guitar player: bluesy chord progressions, one in a 12 bar progression.
Richard had written a couple of melodies, which he played to me as soon as I arrived.
I am going to be helping Richard Povall to compose music again with the aid of his computer.
Read interview with Connect and Collaborate London Producer Ivan Riches on Disability Arts Online