TYPE OF WORK
Music technology to enable disabled children and adults to compose, play and perform music.

TARGET GROUPS
Physically disabled children and adults.

GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
UK, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, South America, Australia/New Zealand, Central and Eastern Europe

COMPANY POLICY
To enable physically disabled children and adults to participate in the composing and performance of music through the use of technology.

The company also delivers training courses to professional artists, community musicians, support workers, teachers and those wishing to work with disabled people in music.

SCALE OF PROJECTS
Number of practitioners: 2 per group
Number of participants: 8
Preparation time: 1–2 hours
Contact time: 1–2 hours per week per person

PERMANENT STAFF: 8
Carien Meijer, Chief Executive Officer
Veronica Martin, Head of Fundraising and Communications
Dr Tim Anderson, Head of Technology
Chetna Kapacee, Project Co-ordinator (London)
Paul Crawford, Senior Tutor (London)
Mick Lawton, Support Tutor
Terry McGinty, Project Co-ordinator (East Midlands)
Doug Briggs, Senior Tutor and Training Manager (North West)
Doug Bott, Senior Tutor (South West)

Music access project (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1997)
A training programme for local musicians in access technology for physically disabled children and adults, working with children from a special school, adults from a psychiatric hospital and adults with cerebral palsy.

The partners worked together with immediate understanding of teaching processes as well as musical appreciation and understanding of commitment. Emotionally disturbed and autistic children were used to strict discipline and it required several people to work with them with less apparent structure.

The project culminated in presentations and the local musicians demonstrated the work to the British Council in Sarajevo.

Veronica Martin
Drake Music Project
The Deptford Albany
Douglas Way
Deptford
London SE8 4AG

T +44 (0)20 8692 9391
F +44 (0)20 8692 3110

E veronicamartin@drakemusicproject.com
W www.drakemusicproject.org

“In spite of having heard of your wonderful work for some time, I was totally unprepared for the impact of attending this event. All were happy and excited, and the astonishing jazz that emerged, as a shared production of those that were well and those not, was something I shall never forget.”
Dr Marian Wenzel FSA, Director, Bosnia-Herzegovina Heritage Rescue NGO on a workshop in Sarajevo (1997)

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