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#DM20 Commission – Roots
The seed of the idea for my #DM20 commission came during a conversation in a music workshop with a girl who used cochlear implants.
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Drake Music on BFI Player
BFI (British Film Institute) feature soundtrack created by Drake Music artists on their BFI Player screening of silent film ‘Fugitive Futurist’ (1924).
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Connect and Collaborate London: 3rd Commission
Following the success of Drake Music Connect and Collaborate London’s music and video commissions In Motion and Ethnomusicality, we recently commissioned DM Associate Musician Gary Day to direct a reinterpretion/re-imagination of an existing song/piece of music, working with a small group of disabled musicians using assistive music technology (AMT).
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Chinatown My Chinatown
I was recently commissioned by Drake Music’s ‘Connect and Collaborate’ strand (C&C) to reinterpret an existing piece of music, working with 3 experienced disabled musicians to compose and record the new piece over 3 sessions, using assistive music technology (AMT).
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Change The Music: Kevin Beardall sings ‘Stand By Me’
Kevin Beardall sings ‘Stand By Me’ with the rest of Nice Touch, a band formed from Music Unlimited’s ‘Change the Music’ project.
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Musical Adventures In Manchester – a short film
The Prospectors are a 12-strong band of disabled musicians who’ve been meeting once a week in Heaton Moor near Stockport for over 6 years.
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VIDEO: Hansel & Gretel – an inclusive cross-arts production at Springwood Heath Primary, Liverpool
In March 2014 four disabled and non-disabled artists from across the UK visited Springwood Heath Primary School in Liverpool for a week-long cross-arts residency
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C&C Music Commission ‘Chinatown My Chinatown’
This Monday will see the beginning of a Drake Music Connect and Collaborate Music Commission.
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‘Hansel and Gretel’ – a cross-arts production at Springwood Heath
You are cordially invited to ‘Hansel and Gretel’ – a free cross-arts production performed and written by nineteen disabled and non-disabled pupils at Springwood Heath Primary School, Liverpool.
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‘Musical Adventures in Manchester’- featuring The Prospectors with Graham Massey
The Prospectors at Band on the Wall Oct 2012. Photo (c) Jessy Garcia
Monday, 24 February 2014
6.45pm
Band on the Wall, 25 Swan Street, Manchester, M4 5JZ
Admission: FREE