Hacking To Make Music Accessible
Drake Music launches making day to inspire the creation of more accessible musical instruments.

Could you be one of 5 Disabled early-career music creators taking part in the next round of our programme?

Discover the brand-new Touch Timpani, the latest in our OrchLab accessible instrument collection!

Join us in May for a day exploring accessible music technology!

Discover two brand-new accessible instruments plus a Sound Free Concert project for cochlear implant users at this event!
Drake Music launches making day to inspire the creation of more accessible musical instruments.
On Sunday 21st April Drake Music will run a hackday to create and share new instruments that break down disabling barriers to music making.
Now, if you are a hub who is currently delivering pitch-perfect strategic thinking and delivery when it comes to music and SEN/Disabled (SEND) students…that’s excellent news and please share the ways in which your programme is effective via Drake Music’s Spotlighting initiative (#dmspot)
Drake Music have been awarded a BBC Performing Arts Fund grant to host Music Fellow Bram Harrison (aka DJ Eye Tech).
Following on from my post about how we are approaching the creation of a social media strategy, I am delighted to share some details about one of the three ‘experiments’.
How do we as disabled Artist/Musicians, living in London, connect and collaborate and make music more accessible? Drake Music & Shape Arts event Thursday 7th March 11.30am – 4.30pm at Shape Arts Popup Gallery, London.
How do we as disabled Artist/Musicians, living in London, connect and collaborate and make music more accessible? Drake Music & Shape Arts event Thursday 7th March 11.30am – 4.30pm at Shape Arts Popup Gallery, London.
This is the final part of my trilogy of blog entries on the subject of multi-outcome projects. In the very short term just gone, we decided to combine the two models of music session that we have been using at CEDA up until now (group / ensemble music making using a combination of mainstream instruments and AMT and 1:1 music production sessions on the aforementioned Assistive Music Technology workstation) into a group recording session.
Hello. As this is my first blog post on my newly-created Drake Music blog I wanted to introduce myself and share what I am working on for Drake Music.
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to deliver Disability Equality Training (DET) to music tutors working for Mayo Music Education Partnership in the Republic of Ireland.