23rd April
What's left to do
- changing the levelling/tweaks (Sonia)
- Text Description (Elinor first, handover to Sonia for checkover, then handover to Abigail)
Once Text Description is done Sonia and I can work on a brief intro - happy to write it - would value Sonia to edit, happy to record, unless Sonia or Gareth would prefer to?
More text with description of why the above:
I agree with Sonia about maybe making some tweaks... some of the soundtrack had dramatically changing levels... like the birdsong might have been a bit too loud... - so happy for Sonia to tweak it to tone it down a little - we had feedback from those who were sensitive to volume/noise that it was stressful for them and we would like to make the piece more accessible to d/Deaf and neurodivergent audiences.
The little changes to the end of my voice at the beginning was also a little abrupt... and Sonia could soften that with the way she blends voice into spacey echoes. (apologies for my lack of technical language!) but Sonia will know what I mean as I've gushed at her about how incredible she fills spaces/rooms with sound.
I was going to work on a first draft of a text description for d/Deaf audiences today (Thursday) and this would be edited/checked over by Sonia as she has lived experience and whilst I have auditory processing delay - Sonia's the expert for how to deliver the text description, I'd simply support the narrative/storytelling process/description of the podcast. I'd only need about an hour (1.5 at most) to work on this.
This is separate from DM - but relates to the podcast I've been curating online exhibitions since I started my DM residency - this residency has really impacted on the way I platform art.... and creating soundtracks via my journeying via words/stream of consciousness....have really opened up new ways for audiences (mainly neurodivergent audiences) to experience artwork made by neurodivergent artists: https://www.magicalwomen.co.uk/my-wisdom-online-exhibition
Neurodivergent Curated Online Exhibition — Magical Women
“Wisdom is yellow. Yellow is wisdom. The colour yellow represents: wisdom mental force, curiosity, insight Yellow is intuition and sensitivity. Magical Women are highly sensitive Highly intuitive Highly Curious With a High Mental Force Magical Women are wise. People who have yellow in their auras are most likely the ones who can light up a room but not necessarily; they are the thinkers; the ...
www.magicalwomen.co.uk
and we'd like to do the same here for our podcast but via text... so d/Deaf and neurodivergent audiences (including those who'd like to read the podcast) can experience music as text.... and
We also had powerful conversations/discussions in our meeting with Gareth last week about signing music too - so watch this space as the podcast was definitely the beginning of something even more accessible/powerful reaching new and wider audiences so audience can experience music/responses through a multitude of ways.
24th April
My checking out is a bit later because it took me longer to complete some work - but I've had dinner in between so please don't worry.
AiR check in on workshops, discussed what we might want to do ourselves, and discussed proposed curated sessions of artists:
Eirini Kartsaki - voice and loops
Rhiannon Armstrong - intimate performance, voice and accessibility
ULTIMATEDANCER - voice and movement
Sean Cotterill - live coding dance music
Got the Neurodivergent Musician Remote Working Document finished to a standard I'm pleased with, with added Assistive Technology suggestions/information and sent this to Becky.
Listened to Gareth's mix - think it's 90% done and gave feedback in relation to noise sensitive feedback from last week on just 20 seconds of the track to tweak, awaiting Sonia's feedback and then Gareth can do final mix and I think we're pretty much finished. 🙂
Shared Becky's blog of us out to audiences - it's been shared/commented on in a few circles.
Organised with Carien access for the AiRs for future collaboration working.
Finished Text Description for Sonia, sending it to her now.