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About Circulation Music Projects
Circulation Music Projects work with a network of professional music industry contacts, including the companies Circulation Recordings and GDR Music Publishing, Arts Council UK and Darlington Borough Council, to deliver music activities and projects. Past programmes have included delivery of the New Deal for Musicians - Music Open Learning Programme in County Durham, Teesside and Wearside, and co-ordination of the Darlington Community Music Project. Circulation Music Projects aims to support the needs of individual musicians and groups towards viable careers in the music and media industries and to improve confidence and creative skills.
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Tanzee record debut music video
Darlington band Tanzee came to Circulation's studios to record and film live footage and interviews for a promotional video, as part of The Darlington Community Music Project. The project funded multimedia studio time through the CircLearning initiative, to enable Darlington musicians to access professional support in recording projects. Footage of the group's performance and lively interview content was included in the pilot programme of the Virtual Venue television show, and was shown as part of Deutscher Punk Fest, the music festival with which the original session was timed to coincide. |
CircLearning Media Film Work With Racial Equality Council
CircLearning's film unit undertook its first short film commission for The Racial Equality Council, Durham and Darlington branch. The film, "Diversity Day" highlights cultural diversity in the region, particularly in the arts, with contributions by performers and craftspeople based in the north east. Footage was filmed at The Gala Theatre, Durham, at the Durham Fiesta, which featured modern indian dance youth group Navrang, Caribbean calypso and steel band, Panama, African Community Association's Tony Suadwa and spectacular Zimbabwean roots band, Batanai Marimba. |
Womens Weekend Workshops Make a Welcome Return
The return by popular demand of our women's workshop events got off to a great start on Saturday 29th November with a winter weekend special. Project groups were set up in the various studios at Circulation UK's Darlington resource centre at Lingfield Point, covering sound recording, vocal techniques, video camera work, digital photography and photoshop techniques. The event was lead by Cordelia Cooper of Circulation UK and attracted attendance from Consett, Durham, Darlington and York. A group also attended a residential retreat in Co Down N Ireland. Circ UK hopes to secure funding to continue this series of events in 2005. Anyone who has attended or who would like to attend future events can send feedback or contact us via this site. |
Small World: BIG DRUMS Film Project on DVD
A pioneering DVD project involving Circulation in partnership with Tees Valley Arts is nearing completion. Music Project Coordinator Kev Howard of Tees Valley Arts approached Circulation to produce the DVD, which features the original compositions and performance of a music and creative writing group whose members have severe learning difficulties.
Digital graphics animator Darren Bowler worked alongside Graeme Robinson of Circulation to add creative moving image content to performance film and stills of the piece Red Bird, which is based on a poem by Barry Welbourn.
The music, a blend of percussion, violin, voices and didjeridu, creates a vibrant soundtrack to the film, which is to be premiered at a major northern film festival in early 2005. |
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