Hi YJd,
Extremely captivating song.
Wonderful, appreciate the efforts.
On 8/7/2023 2:00 PM, Yamuna Jivana Dasa (Yogan Khandoo) wrote:
Hi,
This sounds interesting. Is this held somewhere in India?
The song was professionally produced. Well done. Very modern and
although it’s not my style of production I acknowledge it was very
much in line with the music of today.
A little off-topic, but my complaint about modern English music is
that they are required to swallow their lyrics as they sing so that
it’s hard to hear the message, although the intonation of the vocal
notes are very skilled.
I prefer lyrics that are spaced and easier to hear, and that the other
instrumentation should not crowd the vocalist.
If you do that in modern music they will call it out-dated. For
example, here’s a song I wrote, produced and performed where I keep
the music simple enough and the lyrics easy to hear, which many have
called out-dated:
Dream (Ballad mix) on Youtube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJrZe-3yqc&list=OLAK5uy_lmou25vAlkVCxL6aiBhGxZKhjGhvgC9fI&index=11>.
In time this trend will continue so that unclear lyrics gets worse and
more synthetic with autotune turning singers into robots.
I think real musicians should stand up so that trend does not
continue. We are real people singing real songs in the real world. We
should not allow the industry to trend robotic music to become the new
normal.
Anyway sorry for the off-topic.
YJd
*From:* Aparna Sachdev <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, August 06, 2023 8:45 PM
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*Subject:* [AI] Reflections on the First Access Collective Meet
Hello again!
13 Disabled people walked into a coffee shop. Nope, not trying to make
yet another tasteless disability joke. This past Sunday, 13 of us met
up at the Café Coffee Day in Green Park to chat, share crip stories,
and experience something of Disability Pride together before
Disability Pride Month came to an end. Talk naturally turned to
people’s first moments of disability pride – some people identified
their first contact with collectivities of disabled people as the
germinal moment for disability pride, others pointed to moments when
as disabled people they experienced feeling and being recognised as
competent human beings at university or at work. Still others
identified “coming out of the closet” as a disabled person as being
empowering. Interestingly, “coming out” and the experience of pride in
marginal identity seem to be mutually reinforcing factors, in that
“coming out” is a declaration of pride, and pride makes it possible to
“come out”.
So much of the disability stuff we read came alive that day: we saw
Crip Technoscience
<https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29607>in
action in the self-designed cane tips
<https://blind2visionary.org/content/rolling-marshmallow-tip-dr-t-k-bansal>and
telescoping white cane that blind physics professor Dr. T.K. Bansal
had brought, another person wrote shayari about his frequent
experiences of being unceremoniously grabbed and helped as a blind
person regardless of whether he wanted it, a crip artistic rendering
of #JustAskDon’tGrab
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/JustAskDontGrab?src=hashtag_click>.
However, we collectively acknowledge that the group this time was
largely blind people, and resolved that the Access Collective venues
from hereon would be picked to be accessible to wheelchair-using
folks. Our sincere apologies for not being able to ensure access for
all for the first meet. The short notice (and our limited spoons)
prevented us from carrying out an extensive accessibility recce of
multiple venues. We would love for people to contribute with
information, ideas, suggestions etc, because the Access Collective is
envisaged as a decentralised endeavour where everyone has ownership of
the group and its functioning. You can write to us at
[email protected]. The next meet is scheduled for Sunday,
August 27th, venue yet to be decided.
Okay, logistics aside, we’ve been very excited about something for the
past week or so. Lachi, a legally blind black singer and founder of
RAMPD released Lift me Up
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmr4H9NpTKk>, a song written in
honour of Judy Heumann, recognised as the “Mother of the US Disability
Rights movement”, who passed away earlier this year. We can’t stop
listening to it on repeat, it’s that incredibly good. Aptly released
in the middle of Disability Pride Month, Lift me up is a tribute to
the interdependence, care and community that exists and thrives among
disabled people everywhere. Give it a listen!
Wishing everyone a happy friendship day!
Cheers,
The Access Collective Team
Sandeep R. Singh and Aparna Sachdev
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