Hackday for Accessible Music
On Sunday 21st April Drake Music will run a hackday to create and share new instruments that break down disabling barriers to music making.

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!

We’re teaming up with Sound Connections to co-produce this years’ Inclusive Practice in Action event!
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.
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.