Initial ideas:
In this session there will be a presentation on the unit, and the three pathways on offer.
- Sound Design for Screen
Other screen school course, animation, immersive media, mixed reality, games design (course that can be collaborated)
- Accessible Instrument Design
Collaborating with students that identify as having Physical disability or learning difference, that design for their needs. (当时缺少的就是实验对象）build instruments or synthesiser that impact their needs.
- Independent Interdisciplinary Project
Outside of music and sound, could be a dancer, poet, data scientist, or someone other than music and sound area.
- Place the path way in order of preference
- Write a sentence or two about how you would like to begin expanding your existing portfolio and skills
2, 1, 3
Consider firstly to begin to find a problem or a research topic, and find if there is a possible example or research subject for me to explore, if there is then deciding on creating an instrument or synthesiser for their needs. Third, it is hard to find a suitable person on our own, therefore, first and second could be an interesting choice. If the second one l will research deeper into the specific disability needs, my initial ideas are still hard hearing community. But if not, probably use immersive or mixed reality to create an environment for my issue.
Example 2: using sensing tools to sense having body disability people to control amplitude of the music using any body parts.
Example 1: immersive healing music that has surrounded screen and storytelling
At the moment, I’m really interested in working with disable community and created actual designed project due to the reason of my interested area and my old product design skills. I used to study product design, and I was very passion about it because I love to created something that can physically help others, what that can make society more convenience. Therefore, I want to connet with people who need sound in their life, my first thought in my mind was to create a music toy for adhd children to play with, maybe that could inspire them to be interested in sound and music. However, I can see that it is very diffcult to do that because how hard to find a suitable collaborator, it is not so usual to meet them all the time, and it might not be useful for them neither, I have a research more into it.
During easter, I went back to my hometown China, I was trying to find a suitable collaborator, but in china the situation is even worst, most of the community is focusing on disability people’s daily life, when their essential needs become the biggest challenge, there is no more space for them to focus on the entertainment anymore. After I realize that I have interviewed an professior from Qinghua university school of Art, she suggested me to change a perspective, she said “you don’t have to find a disabled person to finish a work that can help them, you can collaborate with people who is same as passionate on this topic to create with you”. I was enlightened by her words, I realize instead of look exact into what they need, I could try to help them to tell the public, the neurotypicals what they don’t need. I can try to use sound art to let more audience to see what is disbility and their inner world.
