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The Call: where music creation meets artificial intelligence
Post date: Monday, 25 November 2024 - 3:37pm

A collaborative project between artists Holly Hendon and Mat Dryhurst: ‘The Call’ uses AI to merge recordings of 15 community choirs into a unified 'single voice' composition. 

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst delve into the possibilities of AI (artificial intelligence) as a collaborative tool for music creation in their latest exhibition, 'The Call', currently on display at the Serpentine North Gallery until 2 February 2025. Blending art, technology, and tradition, the exhibition reimagines how we create music and interact with machines.  

Find early music concerts in your area
Post date: Monday, 25 November 2024 - 2:49pm

Corporate member Continuo Connect puts historical performances at your fingertips. 

Discover a world of music. Continuo Connect is your go-to platform for finding early music concerts across the UK, offering performances at intimate, unique, and iconic venues, as well as both new and established festivals. Best of all, the site is completely free and easy-to-use.

Give Back Friday with Presto Music
Post date: Monday, 25 November 2024 - 1:30pm

Give back to music charities this Black Friday by shopping with Presto Music, who will donate 5% of their earnings to selected charitable organisations – including Making Music.

Budget news & other campaigning
Post date: Tuesday, 5 November 2024 - 3:39pm

We have looked at the budget through the lens of Making Music members, and there are a few points to draw to your attention. 

Orchestra Tax Relief (OTR) has not been extended to choirs on this occasion. We were not surprised, as we knew government had bigger fish to fry this time around. 

Adopt a Music Creator blog: Coming together
Post date: Tuesday, 5 November 2024 - 12:35pm

Music creator Finn McLean talks about their collaboration with the Glasgow Community Concert Band as part of Adopt a Music Creator 2024. 

Working with the Glasgow Community Concert Band over the past year as part of Making Music's Adopt a Music Creator project has been some of the most exciting, fun, challenging and rewarding work I have had the pleasure to do as a freelance musician.

Insights from Classically Black: a one-day symposium by Black Lives in Music
Post date: Tuesday, 5 November 2024 - 11:03am

Making Music Access and Inclusion lead Alison Reeves talks about her attendance at Classically Black, and how it inspired thoughts on diversifying the repertoire of member groups playing classical music. 

Changes to the Making Music DBS service
Post date: Tuesday, 29 October 2024 - 3:05pm

As of October 2024, Making Music no longer provides DBS checks as a service.

Making Music used to act as an umbrella organisation to help provide enhanced DBS checks for our member groups' volunteers and employees. We did this through the Know Your People System which is provided by a third party called First Advantage. However, we are ending this partnership as of 31 October 2024 and will no longer be acting as an umbrella organisation for DBS checks.

UK music participation: what the data tells us
Post date: Thursday, 24 October 2024 - 1:55pm

Our Deputy CEO, Alison Reeves, explores how data from government participation surveys can strengthen music groups and the sector by highlighting both widespread interest and the challenges limiting broader participation. 

National apprenticeship standard for choral directors survey
Post date: Wednesday, 23 October 2024 - 5:55pm

Join the NSSP in developing a new apprenticeship standard for choral directors and singing tutors by completing a two-minute survey.

Use it or lose it! - how music helps strengthen the brain
Post date: Wednesday, 23 October 2024 - 5:01pm

Quentin Maxwell-Jackson, an active member of several Making Music groups, is a filmmaker looking for vocal and instrumental groups to volunteer to be filmed for a TV channel dedicated to helping people living with dementia.

About 1 million people in the UK live with dementia, with another 500,000 people caring for them. Dementia is the leading cause of death in the UK in 2024.

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