11/04/2026
Heavy Sound since 2012
We had some young local musicians @ our dismantled studio this week.
Alongside our OG Music crew, they've been offering guidance & ideas on how Heavy Sound reshapes our music-making and media activities. And, most importantly, what they feel is missing for others hoping to access music-making in their communities.
Our foundational approach for developing our whole model was music, primarily rap music = lyric writing, digital beat making and recording, ending af with the compilation of participants' work at the end of each project.
We used this as an approach to engaging young people who society often refers to as hopeless, or bad, ie, our most vulnerable and at-risk kids, as an alternative method to making learning & development more available to them.
All our work, led by our Founder, between 2011 & 2016 took place in "secure units" and residential care settings for children aged 10-16 years (who remembers The Welly Farm?) before moving to test the boundaries of delivery in mainstream education, otherwise & notoriously known as high school until 2020. 🤔
Since then, we’ve covered all genres of music & experimental sound. Even farts. A favourite game of ours is to play Guess Who’s Got the Rotten Mic! 😉
A downside of our transition into becoming whatever it is we’re still growing into is that music became just one option among many. Now, people who don’t know us often associate us only with music.
Our name and logo, unfortunately, haven’t kept pace with our growth into new things, but have taken on entirely different meanings for our youth and adult communities.
So, our youth planning groups have told us we’ll also be taking their guidance on brand redesign too, can’t wait for that 🙌🏻
Here’s to getting Heavy Sound music where it needs to be 🤘
