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Good Practice for SEND Young People and Music
A free TeachMeet event with Drake Music and Bristol Music Education Partnership, Tuesday 11th November 7-9pm, St Michael’s Parish Hall, Park Lane, Bristol. BS2 8BE.
Discussion
Starting out at Drake Music
It’s been four weeks since I started here at Drake Music London and it has been a wonderfully varied and jam packed time.
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Walls of Sound – in pictures!
Drake Music worked with pupils at Richard Cloudesley School, Charlton Park Academy, Swanlea School and Linden Lodge School to create a new piece of music for the City of London […]
Resources
‘inGrid’ – A unique and collaboratively designed accessible musical instrument.
We are delighted that Dr Brendan McCloskey (University of Ulster’s School of Creative Technologies) will be visiting our London offices on December 5th to introduce a unique and collaboratively designed accessible musical instrument called ‘inGrid’.
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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.
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.
Showcase
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).
Discussion
“Challenging the way we work to grow what we do”
I’ve recently been having meetings to look at Drake Music’s strategy for the next three years and beyond. In some senses this blog post is me thinking aloud, and it might sound like that, but I think it is important to share my thinking about the evolution of this wonderful organisation.
Discussion
Making music with EyeGaze in the real world
This blog post charts the continuation of my work with BBC Performing Arts Fund fellow Bram Harrison a.k.a DJ Eyetech. Bram describes himself as living with ‘locked in syndrome’ and we’re working together to enable him to make music on his EyeGaze computer…
Updates
Drake Music Consultation Quoted in Lords Debate
Drake Music’s Consultation into Disabling Barriers to Formal Music Education quoted by Lord German during recent parliamentary debate on music education for SEN/D children.