Clarence Adoo, for example, who used to play trumpet with Courtney Pine, suffered a devastating car accident in 1995 and is now paralysed from the shoulders down. He plays music on a laptop, using a specially designed blow tube as a computer mouse. Adoo says he'd rather be able to play an instrument again than walk.
Lyn Levett has severe cerebral palsy and can only communicate by pressing an iPad with her nose, yet makes the "most dizzyingly brilliant electronic music", says Hazlewood. Levett herself, through her iPad, tells us that when she's creating music, it feels as though she's in a cockpit, flying a plane. Sitar player and composer Baluji Shrivastav has been blind since the age of eight months, and Lloyd Coleman is both deaf and sight-impaired. All four make their living solely from music.
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Close your eyes and let music set you free
Phantom of the Opera
carolla
Posted on: 01/22/2012 18:19
How very cool is this??? Thanks lb for sharing the video & the great print link.
There are so many ways to be brilliant, when the world will just give folks a chance. I for one sure hope they'll be on the ticket for the ceremonies in 2012!!
kaythecurler
Posted on: 01/22/2012 19:07
Thanks for posting this LB - it is wonderful.
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 01/23/2012 07:39
I hope that Canada will one day have a Para-orchestra as well.
Here is a link to Clarence Adoo's website and the technology that allows him to make his music ... watch the video at the link (can't embed). This is what technology should do ....
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LBmuskoka
Posted on: 01/21/2012 16:02
Meet the muscians...
Quoted from Let's hear it for the Paraorchestra
Clarence Adoo, for example, who used to play trumpet with Courtney Pine, suffered a devastating car accident in 1995 and is now paralysed from the shoulders down. He plays music on a laptop, using a specially designed blow tube as a computer mouse. Adoo says he'd rather be able to play an instrument again than walk.
Lyn Levett has severe cerebral palsy and can only communicate by pressing an iPad with her nose, yet makes the "most dizzyingly brilliant electronic music", says Hazlewood. Levett herself, through her iPad, tells us that when she's creating music, it feels as though she's in a cockpit, flying a plane. Sitar player and composer Baluji Shrivastav has been blind since the age of eight months, and Lloyd Coleman is both deaf and sight-impaired. All four make their living solely from music.
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Close your eyes and let music set you free
Phantom of the Opera
carolla
Posted on: 01/22/2012 18:19
How very cool is this??? Thanks lb for sharing the video & the great print link.
There are so many ways to be brilliant, when the world will just give folks a chance. I for one sure hope they'll be on the ticket for the ceremonies in 2012!!
kaythecurler
Posted on: 01/22/2012 19:07
Thanks for posting this LB - it is wonderful.
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 01/23/2012 07:39
I hope that Canada will one day have a Para-orchestra as well.
Here is a link to Clarence Adoo's website and the technology that allows him to make his music ... watch the video at the link (can't embed). This is what technology should do ....
Headspace
It makes me feel like a musician again.
Clarence Adoo