Author: Kris Halpin
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MiMu Gloves in Inclusive Practice.
This week I’ve had two days of working with groups of young Disabled people – yesterday at Sense College in Loughborough, today at Midlands Arts Centre with my friends at Services For Education in Birmingham. I haven’t done SEN/D college/school delivery for a little while now. I took a long break, for a bunch of…
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Let The Distraction Take You.
I was sat in a meeting today and finding it really difficult to concentrate. We’re in a heatwave here in the UK, and I have NO spoons. I want to love the heat, but it saps every bit of energy I have. There’s always a camera or three in my studio, so I gave in…
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The Social Model of Disability: Its Uses, its Limits.
In my last post I gave an outline and some musical context to The Social Model of Disability. In this post, I wanted to take a moment to share some of the perceived limitations and even criticisms of the model. This is shared not because I dislike the model, but because I think it’s an…
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The Social Model of Disability.
I’ve been delivering Disability Equality training across the music sector since 2018, and if there’s one idea that’s shifted people’s perspectives most profoundly, it’s the Social Model. For most people, it changes the very definition of what we mean when we say we are Disabled. Nowadays, I find many more people know what it is,…
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On Late Diagnosis ADHD.
I’ll get straight to it. So, turns out… I have ADHD. I was not a hyperactive kid, so this came as a bit of a surprise. That says more about my misconceptions around ADHD than anything else. At least, I wasn’t an externally hyperactive kid. And there’s a pretty good reason for that of course; I…
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Some Of You Have Giant Teddy Bears.
The carny allocated a giant teddy bear to that poor sucker the way that platforms allocate surpluses to key performers—as a convincer in a “Big Store” con, a way to rope in other suckers who’ll make content for the platform, anchoring themselves and their audiences to it. If you are a creative person on social…
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Doctor’s Orders: Re-Released for 2025
Here’s another curiosity from the archives. I was still getting to grips with my new studio, and figuring out how to make software sounds sound lesss softwarey, for want of a better word It’s just a little piano work, a foreshadowing of my return to more serious instrumental composition. It has a spooky charm, as…
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Ghostships – Rereleased for 2025
I’ve been making for so long, that a whole bunch of my career happened pre-streaming. When I recorded my first solo single, there were just a few places you could share music online – remember Overplay, anyone? Most of this music got lost as I moved into the modern chapter of my career, with the…