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About INNER VISIONS

 

Inner Visions seeks to give practical help to visually impaired musicians of professional, semi-professional or amateur status, on a whole range of issues. Inner Vision is a special project by the Baluji Music Foundation to “share the joy of music” made with and by visually impaired people.

 

In 1994 Inner Visions Music Company (which is now part of Baluji Music Foundation) commissioned a report “Blind to the Facts- An Exploration of the Needs of Blind and Visually Impaired Musicians”. This was supported by The Platinum Trust, the RNIB and the then London Arts Board. This report was published in 1995 in different formats and is still selling in UK and Europe. The report helped establish a strategic point for this part of Baluji Music Foundation.

 

The Foundation’s Aims for Inner Visions are

• To give practical support and advice on things like touring, administration, marketing and image.
• Providing information and advice networks
• Setting up Inner Visions Orchestra, comprised of visually impaired musicians to devise, compose, and tour work with a multi-style emphasis.
• Setting up structured educational and community work using visually impaired musicia.

 

 

Baluji Shrivastav, a world famous Indian classical musician presents the Inner Vision Orchestra of visually impaired musicians from all over the world performing original music. Inner Vision Orchestra brings together extraordinary professional musicians from diverse communities. These are people to whom the world is invisible but are too often invisible to the world. Whether they come from Britain or Japan, Iran, India or Nigeria music to them is not only a language – it is also a way of life.

 

Baluji Shrivastav, founder and musical director of Inner Vision Orchestra, has a distinguished career as an Indian Classical musician and composer. His ability to bring together music from different traditions and create powerful arrangements and new work is how he develops the repertoire of Inner Visions. There are folk tunes from Afghanistan, India and Japan; Western Classical pieces with tabla accompaniment and original compositions created specifically for the orchestra by its members.

 

With thanks to Islington Community Chest, Greater London Fund for the Blind and the Cripplegate Foundation.

 

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