Music is for everyone

Feel free to read the following part in the narrator's voice of a 90s local TV anchor:

Welcome to the future! Today's modern technology makes singing in pitch and playing on beat easy as never before. Some people fear this to be the end of "real music".

‍Now switch to whatever voice you like.

Yes, every regular Joe can sing and play these days. And to me that is mindblowingly beautiful. You see, expressing yourself through music is no longer a privilege for the able bodied. It is for everyone!

Since 2012 I have been working with several different projects exploring and applying contemporary music technology to this field.

My main tools has been Ableton, Logic and the Akai MPC Live, a really handy tool due to its accessible pads, portability and wireless integration.

Examples of music projects that I have made possible:

Thomas Enett - Enett
Bawz Jawz - Wheelchair Rappin'
Bawz Jawz - Revolution

In early 2020 me and musician/sound artist David Sabel started a project together aiming to do workshops with accessible music gear.

We tried different ways of reprogramming the remote controller for Nintendo Wii to work with Ableton's Max4Live. We also applied the sensory control of the classic Theremin and patched it to a modular synthesiser sponsored to us by the good guys at Teenage Engineering.

Unfortunately, the pandemic hit just a month before we were about to start. And with parts of our main audience being at-risk group, the project never took off.