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Our work in the arts:
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Illustrates how businesses and the arts
can prosper from working in partnership
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Acts as a catalyst to spark activity within
education, environment and regeneration
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Generates exciting opportunities for
personal and professional employee
development
The arts and making gas turbine engines
have got a lot more in common than
you might think! Both stimulate creative
thinking, need innovation to flourish,
and break down barriers. Arguably, the
jet engine has done more to bring new
cultures, tastes, sights and sounds to the
populations of the world than any other
single invention.
We have embarked on a series of projects
within the area of arts and culture, linking
many of them with other areas of our
community investment in education,
the environment and social and economic
regeneration. |
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Arts & Business is a UK national network creating links between arts organisations and businesses for mutual benefit. Through our membership, our employees participate in their professional development programmes to discover and develop new skills.
Our partnership with ViVA (see opposite) has brought music right into the heart of our business. In 2003, a new ‘noise appreciation’ course was developed by our noise engineering team in Derby with ViVA thanks to a grant from Arts & Business New Partners Fund. The team worked with the orchestra to give engineers a better understanding of what ‘noise’ is and its importance to our products and businesses. |
‘The link with ViVA was
an innovative way of
explaining the subject
and giving, quite literally,
a better appreciation of
aircraft noise. The fact
that people walk into
the room to a piece of
perfectly acceptable music
composed by ViVA from
recordings of fan noise
is a good indication of
the fine line between
what might be considered
noise and music.’
Nigel Birch, Chief of Noise Engineering.
The success of this training programme is demonstrated by its continued delivery in the business.
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A close relationship
between music and
engine noise: ViVA helped
us to develop a noise
appreciation course
for engineers. |
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