Exploring Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) and inclusive music practices for blind music producers. An interdisciplinary study of digital music techn

探索数字音频工作站 (DAW) 和盲人音乐制作人的包容性音乐实践。

• 批准号: 2730629
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2730629
• 关键词: Exploring; Digital; Audio; Workstations; DAWs

This study seeks to investigate the accessibility of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) to blind music producers. It is an ethnographic study designed to explore how blind producers navigate around the digital platform of music compositions and audio recordings. The DAWs are digital platforms on which musical instruments and audio manipulations can be performed digitally. However, these platforms are predominantly visual/graphic based which present some barriers to blind producers from having independent access. The study will therefore generate its data by interviewing blind music producers from different backgrounds. Also, the study will adopt participants' observations as a tool through which the practical experiences of participants can be thoroughly observed and documented. Phenomenology is the preferred approach of this study. Phenomenology as a study of experience and perception provides us with the opportunity to study different phenomena and human experiences in a unique and systematic model. This approach is particularly important for these studies as disabled people experience disability in diverse ways. Therefore, the study takes interest in exploring how blind music producers make use of specific DAWs and their perception on accessibility. The aim of the study is to scholarly contribute new knowledge to the study of music production and accessibility of the DAWs for blind music producers. This is essential because the chosen subject is broadly understudied which creates a substantial gap in the debate on inclusivity in music scholarship. Similarly, the study will explore social angle of accessibility, which includes economic/cultural background, as well as the role of information in the process of removing barriers. Other than the aims stated above, the study also plans to provide practicable solutions to the problem of accessibility. Although, the primary objective is not to develop a completely accessible DAW but the study ought to discover possible ways of modifying existing DAWs to be compatible with computer screen readers for the blind people.

本研究旨在调查数字音频工作站（DAWs）对盲人音乐制作人的可访问性。这是一项民族志研究，旨在探索盲人制作人如何在音乐创作和录音的数字平台上导航。DAW是数字平台，乐器和音频操作可以在其上以数字方式进行。然而，这些平台主要是基于视觉/图形的，这对盲人生产者独立访问造成了一些障碍。因此，这项研究将通过采访来自不同背景的盲人音乐制作人来获得数据。此外，这项研究将采用参与者的意见作为一种工具，通过这种工具，参与者的实际经验可以得到彻底的观察和记录。现象学是本研究的首选方法。现象学作为对经验和感知的研究，为我们提供了一个独特的和系统的模型来研究不同的现象和人类经验的机会。这种方法对这些研究特别重要，因为残疾人以不同的方式体验残疾。因此，本研究有兴趣探讨盲人音乐制作人如何利用特定的数字化听觉工具，以及他们对可及性的看法。本研究的目的是为盲人音乐制作者的音乐制作和DAW的可访问性研究提供学术上的新知识。这是必不可少的，因为所选择的主题是广泛的研究不足，这在音乐奖学金的包容性辩论中造成了巨大的差距。同样，本研究将探讨无障碍环境的社会角度，包括经济/文化背景，以及信息在消除障碍过程中的作用。除上述目的外，研究亦计划就无障碍问题提供切实可行的解决办法。虽然，主要目标不是开发一个完全无障碍的阅读器，但这项研究应该发现可能的方法来修改现有的DAW，使其与盲人的计算机屏幕阅读器兼容。