2024 highlight: using MuseScore Studio with a screen reader. James Bowden, Braille Technical Officer at RNIB, demonstrates how to use all the main functions of the popular notation app as a blind person.
Sound Without Sight
Non-profit Organizations
A new community hub to support, promote, and connect blind and partially sighted musicians and audio engineers
About us
Sound Without Sight is a new online community hub, designed to support, promote, and connect blind and partially sighted musicians and audio engineers.
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https://www.soundwithoutsight.org
External link for Sound Without Sight
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Bristol
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2023
- Specialties
- Accessibility, Music, Sound, Audio, Blind, Visually impaired, Community, Knowledge, Collaboration, Showcasing, Performance, Audio production, Notation, Networking, and Music technology
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Bristol, GB
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2024 highlights: Super interesting article by Tim Burgess, exploring how MIDI can unlock the potential for screen reader accessibility in audio hardware.
Tim Burgess: improving hardware accessibility using MIDI - Sound Without Sight
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2024 highlight: catch up on our interview with Emma Tracey, Presenter at the BBC and host of the BBC Access All podcast.
Emma Tracey interview: replay or read the summary now - Sound Without Sight
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Communications Assistant at Fight For Sight, freelance VoiceOver artist and singer songwriter
It was such an insightful discussion that explored so many angles and perceptions regarding different methods of creating music. Thanks to Sound Without Sight for providing me the resources to carry out this project
Fascinating comparison between learning by ear, using braille music, and exploring digital scores using notation software. Featuring Clare Gailans, Andre Louis, and Kevin Satizabal. Curated by Zenny Jabeera.
Panel discussion: approaches to learning music with a visual impairment - Sound Without Sight
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Fascinating comparison between learning by ear, using braille music, and exploring digital scores using notation software. Featuring Clare Gailans, Andre Louis, and Kevin Satizabal. Curated by Zenny Jabeera.
Panel discussion: approaches to learning music with a visual impairment - Sound Without Sight
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1 week to go! Join our next Monthly Meet-up on Wednesday 18 December 2024, 7pm UK time. Joining the dots: braille music in the 21st Century. Register now: https://lnkd.in/dAR7KVk6 As the third and final part of our mini series on braille music, we are excited to announce a presentation and Q&A with James Risdon! As part of the celebration of 200 years of braille, James will take a holistic look at how braille music fits into the practices of a modern-day classical musician. The session will cover a range of topics, including: • Sources of braille music and how to access them, including libraries, collections around the world, and helpful email lists. • Ways of getting music transcribed, including using transcription services, dictation, or a support worker. • How James uses automated transcription tools himself. • Tips for making braille music files as useful as possible. • How and when James uses braille as a tool alongside audio and other approaches to learn music. James is a professional recorder player and a founder member of Paraorchestra. He is also the Access Lead at ABRSM, where he is responsible for the day to day provision and administration of access arrangements and reasonable adjustments for candidates with specific needs. He is also a member of ABRSM’s Diversity and Inclusion group, and involved in several other projects relating to accessibility. Previously, James worked as Music Officer at RNIB for almost 10 years.
December Meet-up – Joining the dots: braille music in the 21st Century - Sound Without Sight
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It was such a pleasure and honour to join this group to present at ADC. Thanks to Jay Pocknell for the overall organisation and to all the panelist’s and speakers Andre Louis, Elizabeth J. Birch, Tim Yates, Tim Burgess, and Haim Kairy. A huge shout out also to Carla Scaletti for a very thought provoking closing keynote. Hope to see you all next year! #ADC24
Music Support Officer at RNIB, Founder of Sound Without Sight, Advocate for Accessibility in Audio and Music, Freelance Mixing Engineer
ADC24 - what a whirlwind! I’m not sure I’ve ever felt so in awe of everyone and everything around me, but also so welcome and at home. It was an absolute pleasure to curate and chair the ‘Inclusive Design within Audio Products: What, Why, How?’ workshop at this year’s Audio Developer Conference. Thank you to the wonderful panellists: Tim Yates (Drake Music), Elizabeth J. Birch, Andre Louis, Tim Burgess, Adi Dickens, PhD (Ableton), and Haim Kairy (Arcana Instruments). Together, we delved into what accessibility means in the context of audio and music technology, why designing inclusively is essential, and shared examples of accessible products already on the market. Thanks also to: • Everyone for coming and participating, and your overwhelmingly positive feedback so far. I’m excited for the future of inclusive music technology! Please also let me know which topics you’d like to hear more about in future, or anything that could have been improved about the session. • The ADC team for making space for the workshop. • ADC24’s sponsors, in particular the sponsors of the Diversity Scholarships, which supported a number of attendees to participate in the workshop and conference as a whole, allowing new voices to join important conversations. • The MIDI Association for additional support, and offering space on their table to give attendees a chance to try the Arcana Strum and Ableton Move outside of the workshop. (If you didn’t catch it in Haim’s presentation, the Arcana Strum won the Commercial Hardware category at this year's MIDI Innovation Awards!) I look forward to being able to share the recording of the workshop at some point soon. In the meantime, look out for the interviews captured by Sound Without Sight reporter trahern culver throughout the conference! Subscribe to the Sound Without Sight mailing list to stay in the loop: https://lnkd.in/e4gTzhcZ
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We had an awesome time at the Audio Developer Conference last week. More to follow soon!
Music Support Officer at RNIB, Founder of Sound Without Sight, Advocate for Accessibility in Audio and Music, Freelance Mixing Engineer
ADC24 - what a whirlwind! I’m not sure I’ve ever felt so in awe of everyone and everything around me, but also so welcome and at home. It was an absolute pleasure to curate and chair the ‘Inclusive Design within Audio Products: What, Why, How?’ workshop at this year’s Audio Developer Conference. Thank you to the wonderful panellists: Tim Yates (Drake Music), Elizabeth J. Birch, Andre Louis, Tim Burgess, Adi Dickens, PhD (Ableton), and Haim Kairy (Arcana Instruments). Together, we delved into what accessibility means in the context of audio and music technology, why designing inclusively is essential, and shared examples of accessible products already on the market. Thanks also to: • Everyone for coming and participating, and your overwhelmingly positive feedback so far. I’m excited for the future of inclusive music technology! Please also let me know which topics you’d like to hear more about in future, or anything that could have been improved about the session. • The ADC team for making space for the workshop. • ADC24’s sponsors, in particular the sponsors of the Diversity Scholarships, which supported a number of attendees to participate in the workshop and conference as a whole, allowing new voices to join important conversations. • The MIDI Association for additional support, and offering space on their table to give attendees a chance to try the Arcana Strum and Ableton Move outside of the workshop. (If you didn’t catch it in Haim’s presentation, the Arcana Strum won the Commercial Hardware category at this year's MIDI Innovation Awards!) I look forward to being able to share the recording of the workshop at some point soon. In the meantime, look out for the interviews captured by Sound Without Sight reporter trahern culver throughout the conference! Subscribe to the Sound Without Sight mailing list to stay in the loop: https://lnkd.in/e4gTzhcZ
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Research and Innovation Executive: Drake Music | Sound-Artist and Musician | Co-Founder: Hackoustic
I had an incredible three days at the Audio Developer Conference 2024 this week, presenting a workshop on accessibility in music tech with Jay Pocknell, Adi Dickens, PhD, Andre Louis, Tim Burgess and Elizabeth J. Birch. I met many amazing people who are fully committed to improving inclusion and access in music tech, which makes me feel that the future is very bright! Let's hope more music tech firms take up the cause and make their hardware and software fully accessible.
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Just had the most eye-opening and interesting couple of weeks 🧠 First up was the Auditory Efferent Systems: Closing the Loop(s) workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst. I feel so lucky to have been able to listen to such excellent researchers from across auditory neuroscience and technology. I learnt so much about the current research on the evolutionary history of olivocochlear efferents, the relationship with hearing in noise, noise protection, and how utterly complex they are! Got answers to many questions I had, and added many many more 💭 Next was the Audio Developer Conference 🔊 in Bristol. Huge thanks to Sophie A. Carus for having me on the volunteer team again! As always it was great to see so many interesting people and talks. Special mentions (to name just a few) have to be: - "Inclusive Design within Audio Products" - Jay Pocknell, Tim Yates, Elizabeth J. Birch, Andre Louis, Tim Burgess, Adi Dickens & Haim Kairy - "You Can't Buy Just One: Ultra-processed interfaces and their social, economic and cultural effects" - Astrid Bin - "Auditory & cognitive neuroscience and the state of audio technology"- Rebekah Wilson, Susan Rogers, Micha Heilbron & Ryszard Auksztulewicz - "The Future of Immersive Music" - Ruth Farrar, Andrew Scheps, Hans-Martin Buff, Adrian Utley & Theo Kozlowski - "Sonic Cartography" - Carla Scaletti These talks brought new perspectives and information to such interesting topics, and I've come back to my PhD feeling incredibly motivated ✨
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