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

这项研究旨在调查数字音频工作站(DAW)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作品和录音的数字平台上导航。DAW是数字平台，可以在其上以数字方式执行乐器和音频操作。然而，这些平台主要是基于视觉/图形的，这给盲人制片人独立访问带来了一些障碍。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生成数据。此外，这项研究将采用参与者的观察作为一种工具，通过它可以彻底观察和记录参与者的实践经验。现象学是本研究的首选方法。现象学作为对经验和知觉的研究，为我们提供了以独特而系统的模型研究不同现象和人类经验的机会。这种方法对于这些研究特别重要，因为残疾人以不同的方式经历残疾。因此，本研究有兴趣探索盲人音乐制作人如何利用特定的DAW以及他们对可及性的感知。这项研究的目的是在学术上为音乐制作和盲人音乐制作人接触DAWS的研究贡献新的知识。这是至关重要的，因为所选择的主题被广泛地研究不足，这在关于音乐学术包容性的辩论中造成了很大的差距。同样，这项研究将探讨无障碍的社会角度，包括经济/文化背景，以及信息在消除障碍过程中的作用。除了上述目标外，这项研究还计划为无障碍问题提供切实可行的解决方案。虽然，主要目标不是开发一个完全可访问的DAW，但这项研究应该找到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。

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.