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Phase 1 — 2015

Performance Without Barriers


Phase 1: 

SARC / Drake Music NI / 2015

 

Designing Inclusive Interactions
 
March 25th - 27th 2015

Sonic Arts and Public engagement programme “Big Ears” collaborated with The Drake Music Project Northern Ireland (DMNI) in 2015 under the theme: "Designing Inclusive Interactions". DMNI is a charity working for over 20 years to enable musicians with physical disabilities and learning difficulties to independently compose and perform their own music through technology.

The programme took place over 3 days within SARC, bringing together student musicians, engineers and programmers with musicians with disabilities to collaboratively create develop prototype accessible interfaces, and using them create an improvised electronic music ensemble performance.

Big Ears 2015 collaboration with Drake Music NI


Day #1

Dr. Michelle McCormack introduced The Drake Music Project Northern Ireland
Day 1
Introducing Drake Music Project
Meet the brilliant student interaction designers and participants
Day 1
Designers and participants
Lots of Max patches + Roland TR8 drum machine and a Korg Volca Bass that were also used in the final performance
Day 1
Lots of Max patches


Day #2

 

accessible musical interfaces
Day 2
Accessible musical interfaces workshop
Problem solving and learning curves
Day 2
Problem solving and learning curves
Starting to prototype some accessible musical interfaces
Day 2
Starting to prototype some accessible musical interfaces


Day #3

Recording of the final performance of improvised electronic music created using prototype interfaces collaboratively created between The Drake Music Project Northern Ireland Musicians and the Big Ears 2015 student interaction designers.

Listen to the full performance!

Big Ears 2015 Evaluation Report

Click here

For further information please contact

Dr Franziska Schroeder

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