This is a work-in-progress documentary about ‘In Motion’, the first commission by DM Connect and Collaborate London for a piece of music and an accompanying film by 4 disabled artists/musicians, filmed at Shape Arts’s Popup Gallery at 40 Gracechurch Street.
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
These musings are meant to go alongside the Project Co-ordinators blog for the Deconstructing Pecha Kucha (PK) project, written by Pollie Barden, and the other participating artist’s blog, written by Gemma Nash.
Drake Music is looking to appoint freelance associate musicians on a project-by-project basis to build the team in the North West.
It seems appropriate to blog about a Winter wonderland at such a Christmassy time of year, so here we go:
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