Writing with Sound
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ADDING SOUND TO AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Listening to recorded sound is a physical phenomenon, as sound waves touch your ears and your body.
But listening also has an emotional component, evoking feelings and memories. Sound adds a visceral reaction to listening, and when combined with audio description can make for a richer, deeper understanding, especially for people with vision loss.
This is especially true when writing audio description tours of visual art for a museum tour or web site.
Combining audio description with sound effects, ambience, music, dialogue, and sound as analogue can help people with vision loss experience visual art.
For ABS, Art Beyond Sight, I produced the web site American Art with art works from the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The audio description for each work incorporates sound elements to create historical and physical context, or to convey visual elements. Below are some examples from that web site and from other ABS sites.
Note: These recordings are designed to be listened to with headphones.
ADDING SOUND TO AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Listening to recorded sound is a physical phenomenon, as sound waves touch your ears and your body.
But listening also has an emotional component, evoking feelings and memories. Sound adds a visceral reaction to listening, and when combined with audio description can make for a richer, deeper understanding, especially for people with vision loss.
This is especially true when writing audio description tours of visual art for a museum tour or web site.
Combining audio description with sound effects, ambience, music, dialogue, and sound as analogue can help people with vision loss experience visual art.
For ABS, Art Beyond Sight, I produced the web site American Art with art works from the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The audio description for each work incorporates sound elements to create historical and physical context, or to convey visual elements. Below are some examples from that web site and from other ABS sites.
Note: These recordings are designed to be listened to with headphones.
