The Special Access Kit™ is a unique system designed to allow people with disabilities access to the wonderful world of music and sound.
The Alfred Brash SoundHouse at the Arts Centre is pleased to announce that it has secured funding to continue the SoundHouse Special Access Kit project. This short film gives a glimpse into the project to date. A more detailed version of the film will be presented at the XII World Congress of Music Therapy in Buenos Aires, Argentina in July 2008.
Special Education
The Special Access Kit project aims to bring together a music therapist, a SoundHouse demonstrator and your staff to write classroom activities specific to your needs to help deliver your curriculum. Activities could be in music performance, composition, drama, literacy, language, cause and effect or anything else! Your school then attends 4-6 pre-booked sessions (at a heavily subsidised rate) using the Arts Centre’s state of the art facilities, including several SoundHouse Special Access Kits™. All musical and Access Kit arrangements can be taken back to your school to continue working throughout the year and shared with the growing group of Special Access Kit users around the world.
Aged Care
We are currently seeking aged care facilities to be involved in the Special Access Project. This project aims to establish how the Special Access Kit can be utilised within aged care, what benefits it can provide to residents and to expand the repertoire of arrangements available. Aged care facilities are invited to bring clients to participate in sessions (at a heavily subsidised rate) using the Arts Centre’s state of the art facilities, including the SoundHouse Special Access Kits™. All musical and Access Kit arrangements will be placed on the website to be shared with the growing group of Special Access Kit users around the world.
Limited spaces are available. To be involved please contact Joshua Cowie on (03) 9281 8748 or joshua.cowie@theartscentre.com.au
The Special Access Kit™ is a unique system designed to allow people with disabilities access to the wonderful world of music creation.
The kit consists of specialised software and a "Banana keyboard". Both components require your computer. The keyboard has 16 keys configured like an oversized piano, but curved to suit the radial movement of an arm.
It may be placed on a wheel chair or bench, and is capacitance triggered for maximum sensitivity and ease of operation. The keyboard has eight extra inputs so other types of adaptive switching, such as mercury or "Jelly Bean " switches, can be plugged in to allow full user access. Software allows each key to play whatever instrument or prerecorded sound you choose, simply and quickly.
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