October 25, 2018
Dear Joy of Sound volunteers, friends and associates, There are only 3 days left to reach our £2500 target!
Please lend your support toward this rare and exciting opportunity for JOS volunteers Katie and William to showcase JOS’ project work and research at an outreach in Nepal as selected presenters at the 8th International Folk Music Film Festival in Kathmandu – hosted by the Music Museum of Nepal.
Katie will present JOS’ short film Katie’s Song that features her therapeutic journey as a JOS volunteer.
William will present his PhD research into the design and production of bespoke music instruments and access devices for disabled and impaired people who are too often excluded from active participation in community music making. See the JOS website instruments page for more information.
To see further details about the project and to make a donation please go to:
https://crowdfunder.co.uk/joy-of-sound-reaches-out-with-katie-s-song
Please also forward this request to your personal friends and social networks as soon as you can – the campaign has only 3 days left.
Every penny will help and we will keep you updated throughout.
Thank you for your support and consideration,
Joyofsound (JOS)
September 20, 2018
These brilliant portraits of Joy Of Sound participants by Jorn Tomter are featured in Issue 7 of the I Love Chatsworth Road magazine – please contact us to obtain copies.
June 16, 2018
June 13, 2018
June 13, 2018
William Longden, Founder and Co-Director of Joyofsound, shared JOS’ uniquely innovative approaches to emancipatory Inclusive Music and Arts at the United Nations #INFOCUS – International Conference on Volunteerism and Social Transformation, at Geneva, Switzerland.
We encourage people of all ages and abilities to come and participate at a JOS session to experience how and why JOS Volunteers have achieved such recognition for their commitment as advocates for Inclusive Society – and for more than 18 years of continual practice based co-creative learning.
June 3, 2018
May 15, 2018
May 1, 2018
Road Trip!
A JOS team will be heading down to Chichester to do a presentation at the European Outsider Art Conference this Sunday, May 6th.
It’s raised an interesting debate around what is or is not outsider art, and if there is outsider art then there must be insider or ‘mainstream’ art. Is necessary or even desirable to want to be an insider?
Is it the artist rather than the art that is seen as an ‘outsider’?
Where does Joy of Sound sit in relation to outsider art?
February 17, 2018
Come and Support the JOS project for a 3rd night of fine food, music and merriment at the famous Bonnington Centre Cafe at Vauxhall
On Friday February 23rd 2018
All proceeds will go to Give Us A Chance charity in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, who JOS visited in 2016. (www.dajtenamsansu.org).
Fine vegetarian cuisine – Lunch 12:30 till 2pm. Supper – three course meal,Starter £3, Main £8.00., Dessert £3, Coffee £1.50
Book in advance if you want to be sure of a table – there are two sittings for the meal – 6.30 and 8.30. You can bring your own drink.
Vibrant company, JOS Folk music and guests!
The venue does not accept credit cards so please bring cash to pay for your meal
Any spare change will be gladly accepted towards JOS project continuum. If you have any old or unused music instruments to donate
You are very welcome * Come and Join Us * Eat, Drink and Be Merry
December 14, 2017
October 20, 2017
Katie volunteers with Joy Of Sound helping us produce community music with participants of all ages and abilities. Katie arrived at JOS in 2016 and we soon realised that she is a naturally gifted singer songwriter, so we asked if she would like to write a song about her experience, and to share how it feels to volunteer at JOS. Katie’s song ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’ is the result. It emerged as a collaboration with JOS volunteers and participants at our Portobello Road workshops.
A video that documents the process working with filmmaker Julian Langham, sponsored by City Living Local Life RBKC was viewed by over 6000 people, and many suggested the song ought to be released as a single showcasing Katie’s brilliance as a performer songwriter and promoting JOS’s work.
So that’s what we’ve done.
Please tell us what you feel about the song and share the link with your friends and networks. You are also very welcome to come and join us.
Credits:
Song written and performed by Katie Robinson aka Katie Kaboose
Recording / Guitar – Julian Millership
Cello – Margit Kraft
Mixing / Guitar – Chris Leeds
Producer – William Longden
Cover design: Original collage by Katie using an image by artist Sophie Derrick as a base
Other links:
Katie’s Facebook profile.
Chris Leeds
With thanks to the Kensington and Chelsea Volunteer Centre
Come and Support the JOS project for a 2nd night of fine food, music and merriment at the famous Bonnington Centre Cafe at Vauxhall
On Sunday 1st October 2017
All proceeds will go to JOYOFSOUND project with a donation to the Bonnington Centre.
Fine vegetarian cuisine – Lunch 12:30 till 2pm. Supper – three course meal, £14.00. Book in advance if you want to be sure of a table – there are two sittings for the meal – 6.30 and 8.30. You can bring your own drink
Vibrant company, JOS Folk music and guests!
The venue does not accept credit cards so please bring cash to pay for your meal
Any spare change will be gladly accepted towards JOS project continuum. If you have any old or unused music instruments to donate
You are very welcome * Come and Join Us * Eat, Drink and Be Merry
May 31, 2017
The work that Joy of Sound does is only made possible by volunteers. Over JOS’s 17 years there have been many hundreds of people from all walks of life, from many different countries and backgrounds who have found value in giving their time, expertise and effort into helping JOS achieve success. One of our great strengths is the ongoing relationship we have with volunteers, especially those from abroad. Such links have enabled us to visit many countries running workshops and giving presentations on our approach. New volunteers of all abilities are always welcome.
Click here to see information of a special one day volunteering event ‘INCLUSIVE SOCIETY’, an Experiential Awareness Day – June 1st 2017 which we are presenting in partnership with RBKC Volunteer Centre.
January 19, 2017
Click here to view article in the Hackney Gazette at page 15
“Nepalese street scenes with their horrendous traffic and seeing the countless stupas and temples for praying and cremating deceased Nepalese Hindus’ was a memorable experience. It was colourful and noisy, golden and beautiful, sometimes terrifying, but always inspiring.
The Festival was unforgettable and particularly so because of the seemingly endless energy, enthusiasm and radiant smiles of the organisers. Local young people who had been invited saw different cultures and learnt about the heritage of distant places often for the first time; and also about the traditional folk heritage of their own countries regions which many of them knew little about.
The festival features Folk Music and Traditions that need to be preserved. 20 year old footage re-discovered in lost archives and revived for the festival told an important true story “of a troupe of singers traveling through refugee camps and war zones during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
One film formatted in not-in-use-any–more-for…forever blurred VHS footage, showed folk music from Portugal; but who cares when such fine folk music has been saved for the pleasure, delight and interest of future generations. The edit of this material was fast and lively so the teenagers loved it, and I loved it too. There was lots to love about the local folk traditions of Portugal’s Cape-Verdean.
We watched a newly produced film, in HD, magnificently filmed (with the use of drone, of course), a documentary about the rapidly dying of a centuries old culture the Himba tribe of Namibia. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Receiving the Festivals ‘Music Therapy Film Award’ for the ‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Being’ a JOS production filmed and edited by myself, was the icing on a very sweet cake called ‘My Nepalese Experience of 2016.”
‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Being’ has now been added to the British Library Sound Archive ,’Sound and Moving Image Catalogue’.
Vesna Marich
November 17, 2016
The Redmond Files is a Sonic Arts concept album created by the inclusive music charity Joy of Sound (JOS). Various artists were invited to use and interpret a live recording made by JOS participants at the Redmond Community Centre March 2015, to produce their own piece from the material. Over 20 artists have contributed to this album. The pieces range from music, to Audio Visual and Sonic Art.
November 9, 2016
September 1, 2016
Please DON’T FORGET to support Hena Rohman on her SPONSORED BIKE RIDE to raise funds for JOY OF SOUND
An amazing woman on a seriously challenging journey
July 26, 2016
Your chance to meet the amazing Hena Rohman who is doing a sponsored cycle ride from Lands End to John O`Groats (LEJOG) to raise money for Joy Of Sound. Helena says “This is a ride I have been wanting to do for a number of years and I am looking forward to having the opportunity to view some of the most magnificent scenic views of the country. I am also aware that this will be a major challenge pushing me well beyond anything I have ever attempted. I would like all my efforts to a go towards the well deserving charitable activities of JOS” Sign up to sponsor Hena. You will also be able to do so at a link on the new JOS website.
