“ Conflict, difference of opinion, is the very essence of music: in the balance, in the dynamic, in the way that the music is written… Music teaches us our capacity to bring all the different elements together in a sense of proportion so that they lead to a sense of a whole, and this is what I feel in my own subjective way is one of the main lessons that I have learned from music” – Daniel Barenboim
Dr Brendan McCloskey (University of Ulster’s School of creative Arts and Technology) visited the Drake Music offices in London on December 5th to introduce his prototype accessible instrument ‘inGrid’.
A free TeachMeet event with Drake Music and Bristol Music Education Partnership, Tuesday 11th November 7-9pm, St Michael’s Parish Hall, Park Lane, Bristol. BS2 8BE.
We are delighted that Dr Brendan McCloskey (University of Ulster’s School of Creative Technologies) will be visiting our London offices on December 5th to introduce a unique and collaboratively designed accessible musical instrument called ‘inGrid’.
For this latest blog post I am looking back at the work I did earlier in the year at Abbots Lea at Matthew Arnold, helping to introduce the Sounds of Intent musical assessment framework.
I was recently involved in a week-long project for Drake Music at Springwood Heath primary school in Liverpool. Springwood Heath is a school that caters for both mainstream pupils and those with a variety of needs, and for this project a team of four Drake Music associates were working alongside 19 pupils to develop and perform a production of Hansel & Gretel.
Prima Vista publishes braille music and carries out research and development in braille music technology projects. Visitors to Prima Vista’s website at http://primavistamusic.com can browse by ear for braille editions […]
Hello again
It’s been a while since I posted, as I have been a bit busy doing all the usual stuff (delivering sessions, going to the studio, parenting etc).
Hello all
I have just embarked on creating a new accredited course for accessible singing leaders.
This resource is designed to enable students who face communication difficulties to issue clear instructions when composing music using a music software sequencing programme like Garageband or Audacity (you can […]