Hi I'm Rebecca Colclasure a fully qualified mainstream and SEN Music Teacher BA/MA/PGCE with DBS and currently a PHD researcher. I am a qualified ARNI FRETS therapist (functional rehabilitation and exercise training after stroke) -referrals here.
This is my blog detailing accessible music technology solutions and strategies to enable access to music You'll find my training and education work with clients at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability and education and community settings.
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Rebecca Colclasure
- Jun 5, 2018
- 1 min
Richard Bennett performing Sustained Strings
I've hooked up GRID 3 to work with Apollo Ensemble (https://www.apolloensemble.co.uk) so that Richard (DJ HOTSOX) can play corresponding notes with his Eyegaze Here you'll see his GRID which I've mapped to Apollo Ensemble.This is work in progress - next steps are to explore adding variation of note duration and dynamics. #disabilitymusic #grid3 #eyegaze #apolloensemble #lockedinsyndrome #accessiblemusic
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Rebecca Colclasure
- Jul 8, 2017
- 1 min
Research & Innovation Conference: DJ Hotsox - DJing Live From London - Brussels.
DJ Hotsox is Richard Bennett - a bio chemist with locked in syndrome. I work with Richard helping him to compose and perform music with his eyes. This is a recording of the "Research & Innovation – shaping our future" Conference at the EU Commission in Brussels in which I was invited to speak and present DJ Hotsox performing his own music live from his room at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability. Scroll down to see our presentation "Glimpse of the future: DJ Hot Sox an
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Rebecca Colclasure
- Jan 29, 2016
- 1 min
4g Connectivity!
In the studio today we managed to hook up teamviewer, Eyegaze and Ableton! So now we are triggering and remixing our own music. We were able also to hook up Spotify so that Richard could see the Lyrics on his screen as I triggered the tracks in Ableton and Spotify! #4g #teamviewer #eyegaze
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Rebecca Colclasure
- Dec 18, 2015
- 1 min
Ableton and Eyegaze
Finally DJ Richard is going to be possible. Together with the fabulous idea from Dante and Helen from the Royal Hospital we got Eyegaze on Richards Tobi to talk to Ableton on my MAC FINALLY via key presses (Dante came up with the solution) ! We are so excited - no MIDI required - YET! Ideally we will be looking at continuous controllers that we can use - and that will be MIDI. Anyhow a great end to the year - we are going to remotely use Eyegaze and Ableton - Richard at t
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Rebecca Colclasure
- Dec 11, 2015
- 1 min
Eye Gaze and Connectivity
Exploring connectivity with the speech and language therapist between #eyegaze and #abletonlive. Richard uses #Eyegaze a lot to browse, write emails - but it's configuring this so we can control music loops. There has to be a way to output the signal caused by Richard using Eyegaze to select a letter - to my Mac running ableton. I think am going to possibly start a Kickstarter to design a bespoke interface for Richard for this purpose. I got a christmas present too today - i
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Rebecca Colclasure
- Nov 27, 2015
- 1 min
Goth Remixing using Ableton!
Had a lot of fun today, using Ableton Live to cut 4 bar samples from famous goth tracks - then appying effects to each sample. First off we set the BMP to the track, then cut random 4 bar loops out of the track. We then applied FX to the samples. Our favourite was EQing to make the track sound like it was next door then putting a real time filter over the loop to bring it up to it's full spectrum! Richard could pick the sample he wanted to trigger by looking up - we automatic
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disability, music, music therapy, music production, djing, eyegaze, eye control