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A celebratory day of performance and participation centered around accessibility, technology and the arts.

Working with organisations that use creative approaches in access to arts, we consider how we can create even more opportunities with and for disabled people as artists and audiences, in a day full of music and discovery.

Leading organisation working in music and disability, Drake Music present The Radical Sound of Many, a showcase of new commissions as five Disabled musicians tear up the rule book and redefine notions of audience, performer and live music. Gate, Gate by synaesthetic composer Alexia Sloane, performed by Britten Sinfonia cellist Caroline Dearnley explores melody and text in Buddhist chanting.

Closing the day is a panel discussion on Accessible Music Technology for Performance including Barry Farrimond, developer of accessible musical instrument the Clarion and Chief Executive of Open Up Music.

Produced by the Barbican

Schedule

12pm Steve Varden

12.30pm Ewan Mackay 

12.50pm Robyn Steward

1.10pm Dike Okoh

1.50pm Oliver Cross open workshop

2.10pm Oliver Cross performance

2.50pm Steve Varden

3.20pm Ewan Mackay

3.40pm Robyn Steward

4pm Dike Okoh

4.30pm Caroline Dearnley performs Gate, Gate by Alexia Sloane

5pm Panel discussion

All timings are approximate and subject to change

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