The conference will feature deaf musicians discussing their experiences and the challenges of making music
The University of Liverpool and the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) are organising a conference to disseminate their research exploring group performance for musicians with a hearing impairment that considers whether the use of vibration could be used to aid interaction. Researchers from the University's Acoustic Research Unit will present their latest findings from research on the use of vibration to present music to the hands and feet of the body. Dr Carl Hopkins , Head of the Acoustic Research Unit, said: "This conference brings together the results of interdisciplinary, collaborative research between Liverpool and the RNCM with the experiences of musicians and music teachers that have a hearing impairment." "Our research gives us greater insights into what is possible when presenting music as vibration and we hope this could lead to technologies that transmit music as an individually tailored vibration signal to a musician with a hearing impairment” - "Our research gives us greater insights into what is possible when presenting music as vibration and we hope this could lead to technologies that transmit music as an individually tailored vibration signal to a musician with a hearing impairment. This opens up exciting new possibilities for performance, composition, improvisation and music education." The conference features deaf musicians discussing their experiences and the challenges of making music as well as short performances by Janine Roebuck, a professional opera singer who suffers from a progressive sensori-neural hearing loss which has made her severely deaf.
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