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The artist Rebekah Ubuntu is DJ-ing on a sparkling turquoise audio mixer. They have braided cyan coloured hair and wear a gold sequinned jacket and colourful light-up rings on their fingers. Behind them are paintings on a white gallery wall.

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Drake Music Commission: Rebekah Ubuntu – ‘Ecologies of Reflection: An Embodied Process’

This piece was created by Rebekah Ubuntu as part of their Drake Music residency of 2022.

13 Dec 2022 Artistic Development, Commissions

A white person with long brown hair. It is looking at the camera and standing in front of a dark metal shutter and brick wall.

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Drake Music Commission: Rufus Isabel Elliot – ‘An Consolation’

Around ten miles south-west from here the village of Caradal lies deserted.

13 Dec 2022 Artistic Development, Commissions

A white women who has a quiff and the side of her head is shaved. She is lying back, head tilted up and her eyes are closed.

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Drake Music Commission: Katy Rose Bennett – ‘Dissolution’

‘Dissolution’ is a musical reflection on grief and loss.

13 Dec 2022 Artistic Development, Commissions

A rectangular graphic with a dark grey background, it has 3 circular photographs: one is of a white woman who has a quiff and the side of her head is shaved. One is of a person DJing using a sparkling turquoise mixer, They have braided cyan hair. The third is a white person with long brown hair. It is looking at the camera standing in front of a dark metal shutter.

Updates

New commissions from Drake Music Collective

We are thrilled to unveil five new pieces of commissioned work from members of this year’s Drake Music Collective. Artists in Residence Katy Rose Bennett | Rebekah Ubuntu | Rufus […]

13 Dec 2022 Artistic Development, Commissions

A person's hand moving towards a knob on a silver MIDI keyboard

Discussion

Katy Rose Bennett – How I Made ‘Dissolution’

Katy Rose Bennett is a Drake Music Artist in Residence, 2022. Hello! This is a little video about the creative journey I’ve been on this year. I wanted to create […]

8 Dec 2022 Artistic Development

A small tabby kitten claws its way up someone's grey hoodie. The photo is taken by that person who is looking down. You can see the person's stomach, legs and socks. They are wearing black jeans and purple socks with white circles on them.

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‘What is it to be an artist?’ asks Katy Rose Bennett

Katy Rose Bennett is a Drake Music Artist-in-Residence for 2022. “I think it is to be an inventor of space. To create something that no-one has ever heard or seen […]

30 Nov 2022 Artistic Development

Discussion

Five Approaches to Inclusive Improvisation

The Community Music Gods were smiling on the day that we were invited by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and British Council Japan to return to Kawasaki, a city just south […]

2 Nov 2022 Collaboration, International, Learning & Participation, Music Education, Training

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Showcase success for our Ascendant Artists

On Wednesday 28th September, we were delighted to present a showcase of new work by members of this year’s Drake Music Collective. An enthusiastic audience joined us on Zoom to […]

26 Oct 2022 Artistic Development, Commissions