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Fun Day in Tower Hamlets number 2!
Last week Gary Day and Ben Sellers worked on our second Fun Day in Tower Hamlets, funded by THAMES and working with the Tower Hamlets Support for Learning Services.
Tag Archives: Assistive Music Technology
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RAMP It Up! in Liverpool – as a first time Associate Musician
Having just completed my first RAMP It Up! course as an Associate Musician, here are some thoughts and reflections on the experience from a first-timer.
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Andrew Cleaton at The Music Education Expo
In March of 2013 I attended the Music Education Expo at which I had the opportunity to speak at the Drake Music TeachMeet. I – along with a number of […]
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Musical Arc’s ‘Equal Sound’ initiative
Musical Arc’s ‘Equal Sound’ initiative enables mainstream school children to make music and create art with disabled people within the childrens’ own classrooms. Sessions are led by Music Arc practitioners […]
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Call & Echo – Accessible Singing At Stephen Hawking School, London
In this video the Teacher and Teaching Assistants are doing a ‘call & echo’ singing activity with 5 pupils, during a Drake Music/Sounds Of Intent session at the school. They are […]
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Accessible Singing At Stephen Hawking School – Using Sounds Of Intent
Natalie is a pupil at Stephen Hawking School in Limehouse, London. In this video she is participating in call and response, singing a song called ‘Nanuma‘, which is a traditional […]
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Sounds Of Intent Session – Amy playing the electric guitar using iPad app Thumb Jam
This video is from one of the Sounds Of Intent sessions currently taking place at Cherry Garden School in Bermondsey, London. In the video, Amy is playing the electric guitar […]
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Ian plays the Soundbeam (and rocks out to Nirvana…)
Background This film clip is from a Drake Music BTEC Performing Arts session at Claremont Secondary Special School in Bristol. The school caters for children from 2 to 19 years old […]
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Teaching assistant leading a song in a special school
Background This film clip is from a Drake Music RAMPitUp! session at Paternoster Community Special School in Cirencester. In the film a teaching assistant acts as conductor for a song […]
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Symphonic Surfing
The Open Orchestra project- a collaboration between Drake Music and the BBC that brings together six schools to compose for the BBC Symphony Orchestra- has provided a platform to road test some new assistive music technologies that aim to get to the heart of harmonic composition.
