Drake Music Scotland

Neurodivergent Composer Gathering at Scottish Music Centre today hosted by Sound Festival - take away ideas: - does music bottle emotion? How can we explore chance and unpredictability? Benjamin Teague Music Ben Lunn Www.jasonhodgsoncomposer.co.uk www.joestollery.com RCS Composition

All the best with your training Storm! Many thanks for your support!

Some of you may have guessed that our announcement this morning was an April Fool! Here are some behind the scenes pictures of us setting it up. 🤣 #aprilfool #wearabletech #gotcha

We’re really excited to announce our new piece of tech, the Pogonophone!! It’s taken years to develop and we’re very proud to announce we’ll be going into production by the end of the year. Here is Bas demonstrating how it works!

Delighted to be part of PRS Foundation Talent Development Partnership for 2019-20! Such a great network supporting music creators across the UK. Look forward to working with other partners including Cryptic Glasgow over the coming year...

On a Friday in Glasgow - a collection of musicians get together to try out new music. Collaborative spirit, creative thinking and lots of problem-solving skills on display - music of the future. Thanks to Rhona Smith and Clare Johnston for visiting, also to Oliver Iredale Searle and all at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for a really energising week! We took video so will post it ASAP!

Nice bit of word painting here - students from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Fearsome Flamingo - Oliver Iredale Searle RCS Composition Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Pete is working with Oliver Iredale Searle at RCS Composition this week. They are running a module - Creative Composition, Figurenotes, music technology - all on the table for exploring. Here’s some pics from the sessions. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

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Who knows where the time goes?! Exactly a year ago, we were in Singapore showcasing the talents of our Digital Orchestra musicians to the world!

‪Great to have Andy Bruce with us today showing us the CRDL, what a beautiful, tactile and fantastic thing it is! We’d love to explore how we could incorporate this into our work. (It’s also very good at making chicken sounds on our Artistic Director’s nose!) 🐓

A BIG thank you to the talented musicians of Glasgow University Music Club who are supporting Drake Music Scotland at their fabulous Spring Concert tomorrow. Get your tickets here...

Our #LetMeONstage Ambassador Neil Patterson (seen here unveiling Queen's Hall, Edinburgh new stage lift) has a starring role in this brilliant new Edinburgh Festival Fringe video guide to putting on accessible shows. Image: Callum Ollason Find out more and watch the video here... https://www.edfringe.com/…/news-and-… /new-guides-for-access…

We are seeking new members to join the Board of Drake Music Scotland. This is an unpaid, voluntary role but expenses are paid. We welcome applications from those with an interest in our organization and have identified some areas of expertise required including:
• Disability including direct personal experience of disability • Fundraising • Arts/Music sector... • Marketing/Media and PR • Commercial Business Development
If you are interested please check out the information on our website including info about how to apply: https://drakemusicscotland.org/get-involv ed/vacancies/
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See what musician Emma Clark thinks about playing in our Digital Orchestra...!

"Are you the singer hun?" "Naw, I'm the drummer man." Happy International Women's Day and congratulations to the launch of Scottish Women Inventing Music campaign, promoting women in the industry. Let's lift each other up ladies. ❤️💚💙 Creative Scotland Scottish Music Industry Association Musicians' Union Regular Music Celtic Connections Glasgow Jazz Festival The Scotsman

Book one of the few remaining spaces on our Award-Winning Music Teachers Toolbox today and you can purchase a First Figurenotes Pack for only £10.00! https://www.figurenotes.org/…/music-tea chers-toolbox-first…/ @DrakeMusicScot #music #inclusion #education #schools #MusicEducation #musiced #arts #musicianlife #MusicMonday #muscian #musiceducationscotland #musicinstructorsscotland #iteachmusic

Thinking of Amy Moar today. Dearly missed friend of so many people and a wonderful musician. Delighted that her friend and musical collaborator Rhona Smith will be performing some of Amy's music with her laptop technology at an Edinburgh Fringe Festival Concert with the Clarsach Society this August - we will confirm details soon. Here's a picture of Amy playing her Clarsach with Rhona on Digital Harp

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has today launched the 'What's Going On Now?' report into young people's music-making in Scotland: https://www.rcs.ac.uk/…/20…/02/Whats- Going-On-Now-report.pdf Commissioned by Creative Scotland it was steered by a group of members of the Music Education Partnership Group including Heads of Instrumental Teaching Scotland, the EIS, MU, Trad Music Forum, Feisean nan Gaidheal, National Piping Centre and National Youth Arts Advisory Group - and... ourselves.
Recommendations include: Tackling inequalities in access to music Closing the 'musical attainment gap' Changing perceptions of music and its purpose Raising the potential of music in school Creating new opportunities
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Humbling and admirable charity work for people of all different capabilities, though some people may not see how tutoring music to people with disabilities helps when compared to some other charitable causes, if you had ever seen the effect a little live music, singing and getting them involved too has on people suffering from severe forms of autism for example, who can not communicate or express themselves, or someone who is blind and unable to speak. If you could see the change that takes place in them when a little music is introduced to them you would back this charity without question. Please give these good people a like and share as their work is changing the lives of so many people with such a simple thing, long may they continue! Music is the meaning of life :D

Humbling and admirable charity work for people of all different capabilities, though some people may not see how tutoring music to people with disabilities helps when compared to some other charitable causes, if you had ever seen the effect a little live music, singing and getting them involved too has on people suffering from severe forms of autism for example, who can not communicate or express themselves, or someone who is blind and unable to speak. If you could see the change that takes place in them when a little music is introduced to them you would back this charity without question. Please give these good people a like and share as their work is changing the lives of so many people with such a simple thing, long may they continue! Music is the meaning of life :D