Name: Man in the box - By Jack Berrisford by gamelea
Duration: 4 min 58 s
Description: A amazing cover of "Alice in Chains" - "Man in a Box", done at the Gamelea music technology project.

A amazing cover of "Alice in Chains" - "Man in a Box", done at the Gamelea music technology project.

Man in the box - By Jack Berrisford

Tel - (01246) 566557 - www.gameleactt.org.uk

PROJECT OVERVIEW

This is a project which focuses on people with learning difficulties and adults with little or no, I.T and music skills to participate fully in recording their own progress, experiences and feelings through the use of I.T and music technology and easy to use multimedia music software and hardware.

Students will be working with a professional music producer who has been in the music industry for over 20 years. This will help develop student skills previously unavailable to disadvantaged people, with a fully trained professional.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

To provide an innovative music project for people with learning difficulties to have access to this type of technology, previously unavailable to them thus giving them the chance to express their feelings through music.

To provide an electronic music environment that encourages expression, creativity, self worth and confidence. This will reinforce basic skills training, I.T skills, basic music theory, timing and the fundamentals of sound and hearing and how we perceive them.

To create a music learning revolution, widening the participation of the students and enabling them to create their own work on a compact disc master copy for them to keep and listen to at home. Also the creation of a digital portfolio with samples of work and sounds. 

This type of technology has only previously been available to professionals for example, up & coming pop stars and top record producers. But with the advent of music technology over the past few years and the availability of cheaper equipment, this gives people with learning difficulties the chance to grasp this type of technology.

Students need no singing or musical talent, as the software can manipulate their voices and musical ability to produce viable outcomes.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Gamelea Countryside Training Trust provides training to people with learning disabilities or with multiple disabilities, and young disaffected and disadvantaged adults, a group which the Disability Rights Commission reports are most likely to be unemployed. They are also a group least likely to be involved with music technology and I.T.

This project believes that digital sound recording and all aspects of I.T and multimedia could provide a vital step towards empowering people with challenging behaviour, allowing them more control and choice over their lives and promoting inclusion in a very real way, in line with Government aspirations. 

OUTCOMES

This project will use technology in a way that will show people with learning difficulties an exciting and new way of recording music, audio and dialogue. It will also promote the learning of basic skills in particular emotion (confidence, self-esteem, creativity), social interaction (sharing, co-operation) and communication/language (interaction, information and instruction).

Students could create their own songs for use in raising the charities profile and for future fund raising events. Other establishments may also want to use the studio for students around the country to enable them to participate in musical technology.

The project will enable/tap-in-to students’ creative skills. Skills they may not previously thought they had. Giving them the chance to use technologies/software previously not available generally, due to cost, to the general public.

This project will offer the basics of writing music, the basics of musical timing and the basics of musical technology such as:

Learning MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)

Computer Aided Audio Sequencing

Virtual Instruments

Music Theory

Sound Mixing

Recording Audio

Effects units & Audio Processors 

Sampling of Audio Editing

Copyrighting of Music

Drum Programming 