Interactive performance for musicians with a hearing impairment

有听力障碍的音乐家经常使用他们的乐器的振动，或者它所连接的表面，来帮助他们感受他们所创造的声音。著名的音乐家使用过这种方法，包括钢琴演奏的贝多芬和打击乐器演奏的伊芙琳·格兰尼爵士。有不同程度的听力障碍，所以在某些情况下，音乐家仍然可以感知到声音。然而，严重失聪的音乐家倾向于依赖振动。这可能会限制可以演奏的乐器类型以及可以与之一起演奏的其他音乐家。当听力正常的音乐家在一起演奏时，他们可以获得各种各样的线索，从而促进音乐互动。这些包括他们自己的乐器和其他乐器的声音，以及与其他音乐家或指挥家的视觉或语言接触。在集体表演中，听力受损的音乐家无法获得所有这些线索。这极大地限制了音乐合作的潜力。这种艺术和人文学科的跨学科研究涉及声音和振动科学。它关注的是理解，实现和增强听力受损的音乐家之间的音乐互动，演奏古典，流行，爵士，民间或任何其他类型的音乐。它寻求理解听力受损的音乐家所需的音乐线索，以促进团体表演，并基于振动的技术解决方案，以提供所需的线索。这项研究将着眼于使用每个音乐家都可以站立或坐下的单独振动性能甲板的潜力，以及可以连接到身体的振动垫，以及从不同乐器传输振动信号的振动棒阵列。这项研究将深入了解振动信号如何适应不同的音乐家和不同类型的音乐。在大多数情况下，振动信号将是来自其他乐器的声音的组合。有时这将包括电子计时装置，如节拍器。对于即兴演奏，甲板/垫子/酒吧的振动也可以用来吸引其他音乐家的注意力，或者当表演中无法使用手语或唇读时，促进音乐家之间的交流。本提案中对音乐触觉感知的研究利用了对音乐表演的艺术和心理学见解，结合了对振动的科学见解。研究成果将与当前和未来几代听障音乐家相关，并使他们能够创作音乐并与各种音乐家进行互动合作。它还将为向听力受损儿童教授音乐开辟教学可能性。对于慈善机构来说，这项研究将有助于制定音乐教育的新策略，以及将听障人士融入主流教育。

Musicians with a hearing impairment often use the vibration of their instrument, or the surface to which it is connected, to help them feel the sound that they create. Well-known musicians who have used this approach include Beethoven with the piano and Dame Evelyn Glennie with percussion instruments. There are different degrees of hearing impairment so in some cases the sound may still be perceptible to the musician. However, profoundly deaf musicians tend to rely on vibration. This can limit the type of musical instrument that can be played and the other musicians with whom they can play. When musicians with normal hearing play together they have access to a wide range of cues that facilitate musical interaction. These include the sound from their own instrument and other instruments, as well as visual or verbal contact with other musicians or a conductor. During a group performance, hearing-impaired musicians don't have access to all of these cues. This significantly limits the potential for musical collaboration.This interdisciplinary research in the arts and humanities reaches out to the science of sound and vibration. It is concerned with understanding, enabling and enhancing musical interaction between hearing impaired musicians playing classical, pop, jazz, folk, or any other kind of music. It seeks an understanding of the musical cues needed by hearing-impaired musicians to facilitate group performance, and a technological solution based on vibration to provide the required cues. The research will look at the potential for using individual vibrating performance decks on which each musician can stand or sit, as well as vibration pads that can be attached to the body, and arrays of vibrating bars that transmit vibration signals from the different instruments. The research will give insight into how vibration signals can be tailored to suit different musicians and different types of music. In most cases the vibration signal will be a combination of the sound from other instruments. Sometimes this will include an electronic timing device such as a metronome. For improvisation sessions, the vibration of the deck/pads/bars might also be used to attract the attention of other musicians, or to facilitate communication between musicians when sign language or lip-reading during a performance is not possible.Research into the tactile perception of music in this proposal makes use of art- and psychology-based insights into musical performance combined with a science-based insight into vibration. The research outcomes will be relevant to current and future generations of hearing impaired musicians and allow them to create music and collaborate interactively with a wide range of musicians. It will also open up pedagogic possibilities for teaching music to hearing impaired children. For charitable organisations, the research will help develop new strategies for music education as well as integration of the hearing impaired into mainstream education.