Drake Music: Recent Episodes
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Leaders in music, disability and technology, Drake Music use innovative ideas and technology to open access to music making. We put quality music-making at the heart of everything we do, connecting Disabled and non-disabled artists locally, nationally and internationally. We are educators, curators, innovators and advocates. We believe everyone has the right to express themselves creatively through music.
Hear from 3 emerging Disabled musicians about their creative process, the musical tools and instruments they use and how they approached making new commissions to a brief set by Drake Music.
Remi Fox-Novak (Nottingham), Robbie Ashworth (London) and The Dyr Sister (Hull) all took part in a conversation with artist Gareth Cutter as part of our Emergent: Digital day of events to launch their new commissions. Enjoy this insight into their work and find the visuals discussed over on the Drake Music YouTube channel.
Emergent: Digital was produced in partnership with Sound and Music and funded by Help Musicians UK. This conversation was recorded at a live Zoom-based listening party and was edited by Leon Clowes. It then featured on The Avant Garden radio event on Reel Rebels Radio.
Audio Flyer for the call out for visually impaired musicians to apply to Drake Music's Emergent training programme.
A new track created by Disabled musician Hannah Shelmerdine, based in the North West of England, inspired by the feeling of sailing and being out on the water. Hannah takes the listener on a journey with her, from an intimate opening with the sound of waves through to an expansive melodic theme on the clarinet.
Hannah's process is based in experimentation, with this piece being built first in Logic and then combined with sounds from clarinetist Rachael Moat. Hannah and Rachael took a collaborative approach, with Hannah directing and Rachael improvising to create the final sounds.