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SoundLab is an innovative digital music making project from Heart n Soul. It explores ways of using music technology to encourage people with learning disabilities to create music and sound experiences. We believe improving accessibility in digital music making benefits everyone. I work with a number of different artists one to one on this project.
The aim of SoundLab collaborations is to share new music technology developments and ways of making music with a wider audience, inspiring people to try new tools, techniques and experiences to create. We collaborate with artists and other projects to create music, performances and events.
SoundLab Studio Sessions take place at the Heart n Soul studio in Deptford. Young artists get the chance to work one to one with a producer to create their own music and develop their musical style.
Some of the artists learn how to use the studio more independently as well as having the chance to try out all the different equipment and instruments.
Danielle
I have been working with Danielle in the SoundLab Studio since 2019. In this time she has written 2 albums and an E.P. She uses music technology such as Ableton Live, drum machines and synthesisers.
Danielle creates art to make music and music to make art.
Danielle won a Youth Music Award for her video “Cant Stop Drawing” video in 2022.
Danielle has performed at Southbank, LSO St. Luke’s, and The Albany.
Dean Rodney Jr. and Ravioli Me Away
Heart n Soul artist Dean Rodney Jr and members of the band Ravioli Me Away (Rosie Ridgeway, Alice Theobald & Sian Dorrer) collaborated together in September and October 2017, to produce two new pieces of music, ‘Dean TV Girls’ and ‘Chicken Boom Boom’, a performance video of Dean TV Girls, as well as 4 short films of how to use some of the technology they used.
The collaboration included Ableton, the maker of ‘Live, Push and Link’ software and hardware for music creation and performance, and mi.mu gloves, which enable music making through the complex movement of the human body.
The explainer videos show how to make a drum beat with Ableton Push; how to make music and dance at the same time with mi.mu gloves; how to create a vocal loop with Ableton Push; and how to use a vocoder using Roland vocoder i.e. a voice transformer.
In order to co-create a new way of working and performing, Ableton trained Dean Rodney and Ravioli Me Away in using the Push hardware, while the artists met with musician Kris Halpin for a demo of the mi.mu gloves. Working with both the Ableton software and exploring the mi.mu gloves, Dean Rodney and SoundLab provide feedback as to how to make the tools more accessible. mi.mu gloves has set up a residency for Dean Rodney to explore increasing accessibility, and Dean is now using the Ableton software for his own projects.