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Meet Dean Rodney, a 21-year-old artist – a songwriter and front man of The Fish Police. Dean has an interesting view on the world, which is informed by his autism – he wants to share his way of seeing things with the rest of the world.

In 2010, Dean wrote a song called the Dean Rodney Singers. The song was about a mission – getting disabled and non-disabled artists from around the world to work together.

To make this happen he is working with seventy-two performers from seven countries across the world including China, Brazil, Germany and South Africa, to produce twenty-five songs with videos.
 

The songs aren't made yet. Dean will share beats, musical phrases, song titles or lyrics to get everyone inspired. The songs are then going to be written, composed, improvised and played by the band itself, using the best web technology we can lay our hands on.

This music is going to be inspired by Dean's favourite styles – JPop, Electro, Funk, Rock, and Hip Hop. But the influences will of course come from all the band members.

The audience will become a part of the mission too. They'll be able to see the music as it is being created and help develop it.

The project will finish with an interactive sound and visual installation during the London Olympic and Paralympic Games at the Royal Festival Hall, London. It will be a chance for audiences to be part of Dean’s world. They’ll be able to take get involved with the music, videos and images created, make their own track or get the chance to appear in a video.

To keep up to date with the project visit here.

Hear some of the music the Dean Rodney Singers team
is coming up with here.

 

The Dean Rodney Singers has been commissioned for Unlimited, a project celebrating disability, arts, culture and sport on an unprecedented scale as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

The project is principally funded by the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor, and is delivered in partnership between London 2012, Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council.