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LouD SpekA Developing Your-Creative-practice (DYCP) May-2021-May-2022-with Arts Council England (ACE)

From May 2021- May 2022 I was supported by Arts Council England, (ACE) on their Developing Your Creative Practice Programme (DYCP). This is for artists who want to develop in new areas to spend time learning, growing and developing. I applied to learn more about music production, video editing with live sampling, and DJing. I was able to spend time over this year getting lessons, courses, and personal mentoring in these areas. As part of my learning experience, I said I would produce 3 music tracks and 2 music videos.

I have released these music tracks and videos to a smaller audience first, and I am planning on doing a larger promotion release throughout the rest of 2022. 

The 3 music tracks I have produced feature on my Bandcamp and will be released on Spotify through the rest of 2022.

https://loudspeka.bandcamp.com/track/worker-bees

https://loudspeka.bandcamp.com/track/re-born-to-re-wild

https://loudspeka.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-forest

There are 2 videos that I have produced as part of this learning experience. 

The second video ‘Worker Bees’ has 2 different versions:

Cheesy Dreams https://youtu.be/KGYqP4tDx8Y

Worker Bees Video 1 Low Fly https://youtu.be/xtiSzRQyzhQ

Worker Bees Video 2 High Fly https://youtu.be/rolD0TFIexQ

Worker Bees music video ended up being more of a challenge than predicted as the camera operator’s camera was stolen on location in the first video shoot in Tower Hamlets in April 2022! Along with the rest of the people I had asked to collaborate with me on the video, we then had to resort to plan B where we filmed on mobile phones for the rest of the day and made the best of it with the footage. This became the Low Fly Worker Bees video. Even though the footage is not as professional in quality, the people I collaborated with love the energy of this video and the dancing! We had to plan a time to re-film with a professional camera, but only half the original crew were able to make it for the second shoot. The edit on this video had to be done very quickly and I would have appreciated taking longer over it and learning as I went. We made a behind-the-scenes vlog about the challenges that we faced here:

Vlog about making the video https://youtu.be/GDpu64x3ces

In attempting this video twice, I essentially got more of a learning experience. My first video Cheesy Dreams is currently listed on a public link. However, the two ‘Worker Bees’ (Low Fly and High Fly) videos are currently listed on private links in order to give me time to decide if I want to re-edit and seek further mentoring. I wanted to have something done to show what I had learned in video editing lessons for the end of the DYCP time, however.

As part of the DYCP I got some lessons in sampling, live looping and DJing and over this time I hosted various livestreams. I have edited together some moments from these livestreams that show the learning journey here:

I also have spent some more time trying to work on my sustainability as an artist and a social justice activist. I have made a Patreon and tried to get support every month here:

www.patreon.com/loudspeka     

I have done a basic video asking for support and some basic appeals. I originally wanted to spend more time on this but learning all the new skills took a lot more of the time I allocated each week to DYCP. However, I started the year with 1 supporter and finished the year with 7 more but I’m hoping to invest further in this area to keep my artist and activist content creation alive! Any support and solidarity in this is really appreciated, and I am hoping to build on this area and make more of it in the future.

Don’t Bomb Anyone

Don’t Bomb Anyone- Especially Not In My Name

 

Don’t Bomb Anyone- Especially Not In My Name! In the year that the Chilcot Report came out http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/the-report/ we have had lots of concerning revelations about the nature and basis the 2003 Iraq war was called, and all being funded by tax payers money, (so Kind of implicating all of us). Since December 2015- September 2016 the UK has also been taking military action bombing in Syria and continuing actions in Iraq, some of which is even recorded here on the ministry of defence web sitehttps://www.gov.uk/government/news/update-air-strikes-against-daesh

. …At time of writing there is a fragile ceasefire though its hard to tell what is actually going on, on the ground. However as Stop The War points out military action is also being taken in other countries such as Libya without being debated in parliament first http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news-comment/1987-britain-is-at-war-in-libya-and-nobody-thought-to-tell-us. In a year when we had such concerning revelations of the basis of war we are being called into should we not be being more reflective or calling the government and ministry of defense to account more often? Some people have been so upset by the war and what our government implicates us in on line that conscience on line has been campaigning for the right to conscientiously object with our tax money. http://www.thecanary.co/2016/07/29/parliament-just-took-extraordinary-step-towards-allowing-uk-citizens-stop-funding-wars/

Good News; On 19th July an extraordinary billhttp://www.conscienceonline.org.uk/new-taxes-for-peace-draft-bill/ was tabled in the UK parliament. The proposal, presented by Brentford and Isleworth MP Ruth Cadbury, seeks to allow citizens to divert the portion of their taxes that would ordinarily pay for military operations into a conflict prevention fund instead.

The bill passed its first reading, is backed by the Green’s Caroline Lucas, and will receive its second reading on 2 December. If it succeeds the UK will set a historic precedent as the first country to allow citizens “to get the world you pay for” – with a chance to pay for peace not war. Its worth watching this space and writing to your MP in support of this bill.

http://www.conscienceonline.org.uk/template-letter-to-send-to-your-mp/

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Hey just landing in the robin hood… been dragged through a hedge backwards by the banks but just landing :)

Bank girl v 4 plainBank Girl is PlotBank ting some serious bank jobs  🙂

Discredit cards.. hoping that the discredit card turns the financial system upside down as poets every start to BREAK THE CODE and write and Ode/Owed to the banks …(for example).

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Hoping for an inspirational incremental Re-Evolution where the banks and those in power start turning Over New Leaves in how money is created and controlled…