Resources
LooperDooper music resources
LooperDooper can help pretty much anyone make music including musicians with a range of special educational needs and disabilities. It has been co-designed by students and staff members at three […]
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.
Discussion
Mi.Mu Musical Gloves
Our Research and Development team have been working on an exciting project with musician Kris Halpin in recent months.
Updates
DM latest press coverage
Drake Music & Kris Halpin featured with Imogen Heap in WIRED article.
Events - past
‘On the Go’ with Matthew Halsall & Drake Music – a work-in-progress sharing
‘On the Go’ is an exciting collaboration between Mancunian spiritual jazz composer Matthew Halsall; music & technology organsiation Drake Music; and four disabled music producers who have been developing their skills through sampling, reworking and performing elements of Matthew’s back catalogue.
Resources
Exchanging Notes: A New Model of Peripatetic Music Lessons
Exchanging Notes is a Youth Music funded, 4 year project between Drake Music, Ealing Music Partnership and Belvue School, working with young people with SEND at KS3/4 with moderate or severe learning difficulties, and particularly those facing disabling barriers to music.
Resources
Exchanging Notes: Balancing Formal and Non-formal Outcomes, Delivery and Assessment
“ Conflict, difference of opinion, is the very essence of music: in the balance, in the dynamic, in the way that the music is written… Music teaches us our capacity to bring all the different elements together in a sense of proportion so that they lead to a sense of a whole, and this is what I feel in my own subjective way is one of the main lessons that I have learned from music” – Daniel Barenboim
Opportunities
WANTED: disabled DJs / musicians / producers for free accessible music course in Manchester
Drake Music is inviting disabled DJs/producers/musicians aged 18+ from across the North West to apply to be part of a free week-long accessible DJ/production course led by MOBO Award nominated jazz composer and DJ, Matthew Halsall.
Resources
inGrid in London
Dr Brendan McCloskey (University of Ulster’s School of creative Arts and Technology) visited the Drake Music offices in London on December 5th to introduce his prototype accessible instrument ‘inGrid’.
Discussion
EyeGaze composing with E-Scape
This is the second of two blog posts on my work with BBC Performing Arts Fund fellow Bram Harrison a.k.a DJ Eyetech.