Events
Billy Saga & Kid Campbell hit the UK
Drake Music are proud to be producing the first ever UK tour of Brazilian rapper Billy Saga. As well as playing live at prestigious venues across the UK, Billy will […]
Category Archives: Commissions
Discussion
Absorbed by Sound: playing things our way
(The following piece is written by Drake Music Associate Tara Baggott, who plays bass guitar in this film) Absorbed by Sound is a group made up of young disabled musicians […]
Discussion
#DMLabChallenge supported by the British Council
The #DMLabChallenge is a 4 week accessible musical instrument making challenge. Instruments created will be showcased at an invited British Council event happening alongside Unlimited Festival at the Royal Festival […]
Discussion
Working with Drake Music Artistic Development
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
Showcase
#DM20 Commission – The Day of the Music
As a musician and workshop leader with an understanding of music as a process, a state of mind, and a tool for growth, I believe that focussing too much on the ‘final product’ of a project can sometimes be counter-productive.
Discussion
#DM20 Commission: Finding the Participants
This #DM20 commission- a new composition written by deaf people for deaf people (and everyone else) – is the first time I have been responsible for the complete planning and delivery of a project of this scale.
Showcase
#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.
Updates
#DM20 Commissions Announced
Drake Music is delighted to announce 2 new artist commissions by Sophie Partridge and Ben Sellers as part of #DM20, our 20th anniversary celebrations.
Events
Seasons 4.0 work-in-progress sharing, Friday 05/09/14
Seasons 4.0 is an experiment in dance, music and interactive technology. Please join us for a work-in-progress sharing in London, Friday 5th September at midday.
Showcase
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).
