Discussion
Inclusive Creativity: introducing Acoustronic
Introducing a new inclusive ensemble – Acoustronic
Events
Drake Music Innovation Lab North to be launched Monday 26th October 2015 at Madlab, Manchester
Call for disabled musicians, makers, technologists, coders and hackers to attend DMLab North, launching Monday 26th October 2015 at Madlab, Manchester. Supporting the development of accessible musical instruments for disabled […]
Discussion
Exchanging Notes: A Musical Adventure in Ealing
Drake Music are lucky to be one of ten organisations that are part of Youth Music’s Exchanging Notes programme. Each Exchanging Notes project (a partnership between a school and specialist […]
Discussion
Sonic Vistas – an update
Sonic Vistas is a project from Ivan Riches, funded by Arts Council England which involved bringing disabled artists, musicians and film-makers together for an exciting cross-artform performance at Liberty Festival […]
Updates
Arts Council England Music Survey
Arts Council England is currently carrying out research into the professional development needs of musicians. We are delighted that career development for musicians is being given serious consideration and we […]
Resources
Working with Groups of Wide-Ranging Ability
From the 24th to the 29th August 2015 myself and fellow Drake Music Associate Musicians Caro Churchill and Fil Hill worked on a project called Summer Soundtrackers at Z-Arts in […]
Discussion
Demolition of accessible recording studio
At Drake Music we are very aware of the number of barriers disabled musicians face when recording music, and the fact that there simply aren’t enough facilities which are accessible. […]
Discussion
Interview: Katie Fraser at Web We Want festival
Earlier this year Drake Music took part in the Web We Want festival at the Southbank Centre in London. We held a hackathon to create new accessible instruments and also […]
Discussion
Mi.Mu Gloves – Work in Progress
As part of our Research and Development programme we are collaborating on the Mi.Mu Gloves project initiated by Imogen Heap. The gloves use cutting edge technology to create a wearable […]
Resources
Figurenotes
Figurenotes is an alternative to conventional musical notation which has been used successfully by young people with learning difficulties (including some on the autistic spectrum) in Finland and Scotland. Figurenotes […]