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The Radical Sound Of Many – Highlights Video
In Spring 2019 Drake Music presentedThe Radical Sound of Many at the Barbican Centre in London. This was a showcase of brand new commissions, where five Disabled musicians tore up the […]
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Preston Makers – Building and playing new instruments
Video from Preston Makers where young musicians and hackers got together to come up with new instruments.
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Dirt On My Name – Ey5z feat. Breezy (live)
Recorded live at HOME Manchester, this hypnotic trap track by female producer Ey5z sets Breezy’s mumble rap flow to reflective skipping beats and wavy synths. Here’s hoping we hear more […]
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Working in Japan
The British Council & Kawasaki City Council invited Drake Music on a second trip to Japan in early 2019, to deliver a series of taster sessions and training in Kawasaki, […]
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Drake Music commission: Louis Walkden ‘Magpie’
Artist: Louis Walkden Title: Magpie Commission Partner: Carousel Louis was the recipient of one of our Emergent commissions for early-career Disabled artists. Funded by Help Musicians UK, the Emergent programme […]
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The Kellycaster – a bespoke accessible guitar
John Kelly came to our Research and Development team with a simple request… to play guitar. Two years, lots of iterations, development, improvement, testing and playing later and the Kellycaster […]
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Soundbox Inclusive Ensemble – A true partnership
Soundbox is an all-ability inclusive music collective that brings together disabled and non-disabled musicians aged 11+ from East London and beyond. This video explores the successful partnership between music organisations […]
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Music outside the classroom
We’ve been working with Belvue School and their students for a long time as part of Exchanging Notes. This year it was a pleasure and a privilege to get to […]
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DMLab North West – September 2018 sharing
In September 2018 our DMLab North West meeting was about sharing the progress and success of various projects created as part of our Innovation Challenge, which was supported by the […]
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Drake Music commission: Ben Lunn ‘T-4’
Artist: Ben Lunn Title: T-4 Mentor: Kristian Gjerstad Commission Partner: Brighter Sounds Musicians: Violin – Margarita GarmutėArlauskienė Cello – Gunda Baranauskaite Alto Trombone – Joseph Lunn Ben Lunn was the […]