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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).
Tag Archives: Assistive Music Technology
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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…
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Brilliant Connections – A short film about music hubs and special schools
This film is called ‘Brilliant Connections’ and discusses how music hubs can best support special schools (NB: if you experience ‘buffering’ issues, click on ‘Pause’ button and wait approx. 45 […]
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Connect and Collaborate London: 3rd Commission
Following the success of Drake Music Connect and Collaborate London’s music and video commissions In Motion and Ethnomusicality, we recently commissioned DM Associate Musician Gary Day to direct a reinterpretion/re-imagination of an existing song/piece of music, working with a small group of disabled musicians using assistive music technology (AMT).
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Chinatown My Chinatown
I was recently commissioned by Drake Music’s ‘Connect and Collaborate’ strand (C&C) to reinterpret an existing piece of music, working with 3 experienced disabled musicians to compose and record the new piece over 3 sessions, using assistive music technology (AMT).
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3 Schools – 1 Guitar Concerto – COLF 2014!
I was so pleased to be working on this year’s City Of London Festival and to also have the opportunity to be working with 3 of the same schools and pupils who also participated in last year’s festival. This year’s theme and brief was ‘Street Guitar Concerto and Performance’.
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Musical Adventures In Manchester – a short film
The Prospectors are a 12-strong band of disabled musicians who’ve been meeting once a week in Heaton Moor near Stockport for over 6 years.
Events
Drake Music with Music Hackspace Hackathon
Drake Music, in partnership with Music Hackspace, will host a one day Hackathon at NIME 2014 Open Day, Goldsmiths University, London on Friday 4th July.
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The power of Arts Award in SEND settings
The Funky Pie Company are a diverse team of artists who love to share their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm with others (NB The film will begin playing automatically) The Funky […]
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Music Leadership skills using BTEC and ITM courses
Students from Ash Field Academy perform a rhythm piece as part of their BTEC and Introduction to Music work (NB: the video will begin playing automatically beneath the accompanying text) […]
