Splendid! Would like to get on a call with you. Either you could share your 
number or you could give me a call on 011 45500380.

 

I look forward to connecting with you.

 

Best,

 

George

 

 

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf 
Of Yamuna Jivana Dasa (Yogan Khandoo)
Sent: 08 August 2023 10:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AI] Reflections on the First Access Collective Meet

 

Hi George,

You wrote:

> Did I read right about you being the singer in the video? >

 

Yes Sir. I composed and produced the music at my home studio mainly without 
sighted help. Then I sang the vocals and backing vocals myself. That all 
happened when I lived in South Africa. I have now moved to India.

Perhaps I will eventually teach this to other blind musician enthusiasts when I 
am back on my feet in India.

 

Kind regards,

 

Yamuna Jivana dasa

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  

Sent: Monday, August 07, 2023 3:41 PM

To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  

Subject: RE: [AI] Reflections on the First Access Collective Meet

 

Very nice recording. Did I read right about you being the singer in the video ?

 

Best,

 

George

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On 
Behalf Of Yamuna Jivana Dasa (Yogan Khandoo)
Sent: 07 August 2023 14:00
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [AI] Reflections on the First Access Collective Meet

 

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 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJrZe-3yqc&list=OLAK5uy_lmou25vAlkVCxL6aiBhGxZKhjGhvgC9fI&index=11>
 .

 

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

 

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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  
<https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29607> in action 
in the self-designed cane tips  
<https://blind2visionary.org/content/rolling-marshmallow-tip-dr-t-k-bansal> 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 
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/JustAskDontGrab?src=hashtag_click> . 

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 [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> . 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 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmr4H9NpTKk> , 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

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