In this multi-directional project, it is my intention to illuminate the meaning of seeing through hearing via immersive audio stories and the spatial analysis of sound recordings. My project gives people the opportunity to see non-visually through auditory cues to get a working sense of the environment based on what is heard rather than what is seen.

To learn more about this project visit my project site at https://www.seeingthroughhearing.com/

Through this immersive multi-directional project, I am working with people in the community who are blind to understand how they view their world and how we can create multimedia content for the blind.

For this current and ongoing project I’m using binaural and spatial audio recordings and interviews to document the way blind people perceive their world and how we truly hear things in our everyday lives.

The use of spatial sound recordings and binaural audio recordings are not new; however: 3D audio stories created by the combination of binaural and ambisonic recordings mixed with interviews are still innovative in their use for journalistic stories, multidisciplinary ethnographies and immersive storytelling.