Hi Enjoyed listening some of your songs Keep it up Best Prerna Sobti
> On 07-Aug-2023, at 2:00 PM, Yamuna Jivana Dasa (Yogan Khandoo) > <ykhan...@gmail.com> 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. > > 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 > Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2023 8:45 PM > To: undisclosed-recipients: > 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 in action in the self-designed cane tips 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. > > 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 > access.collectiv...@gmail.com. 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, 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 > > -- > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. 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