Aural Diversity

John L. Drever operates at the intersection of acoustics, audiology, urban design, sound art, soundscape studies, and experimental music. He is Professor of Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-leads the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR). He has a special interest in soundscape methods, in particular field recording and soundwalking. Andrew Hugill is Professor of Creative Computing at the University of Leicester. He is also a Professor of Music and his principal research areas are composition, musicology, and creative technologies. His publications include: The Digital Musician (Routledge), now in its third edition. He founded the Aural Diversity project.

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John L. Drever and Andrew Hugill: Aural Diversity: General introduction



David M. Baguley: Aural Diversity: A clinical perspective
PART I: ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS AND SOUNDSCAPE




Julian Henriques, Eric Jauniaux, Aude Thibaut de Maisieres, and Pierre Gélat: Sound Before Birth: Foetal hearing and the auditory environment of the womb



John L. Drever: Phonating Hand Dryers: exploits in product and environmental acoustics, and aural diverse composition and co-composition



William Renel: The Auditory Normate: Engaging critically with sound, social inclusion and design



Matt Lewis: Listening with Deafblindness



Meri Kytö: Soundscapes of Code: Cochlear implant as soundscape arranger



Patrick Farmer: 〰️



William J. Davies: Autistic Listening



Karla Berrens: Fire, Drums and the Making of Place During a Correfoc



Josephine Dickinson: Alphabetula



Ed Garland: Textual Hearing Aids: How reading about sound can improve sonic experience
PART II: MUSIC AND MUSICOLOGY




Samuel Couth: The Show Must Go On: Understanding the effects of musicianship, noise exposure, cognition, and ageing on real-world hearing abilities



Alinka Greasley: Diverse Music Listening Experiences: Insights from the hearing aids for music project



Andrew Hugill: Consequences of Ménière's Disease for Musicians, Their Music-Making, Hearing Care, and Technologies
Chris. J. H. Cook: Socialising and Musicking with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A case study from rural Cornwall



Matthew Spring: Thomas Mace: A hearing-impaired musician and musical thinker in the seventeenth Century



John D'Arcy: Do You Hear What I Hear? Some creative approaches to sharing and simulating diverse hearing



Balandino Di Donato: Sign in Human–Sound Interaction
Duncan Chapman: The Aural Diversity Concerts: Multimodal performance to an aurally diverse audience



Jay Afrisando: Music–Making in Aurally Diverse Communities: An artist statement
Simon Allen: Attention Reframed: A personal account of hearing loss as a catalyst for intermedia practice



David Holzman: Lost and Found: A pianist's hearing journey



Andrew Hugill: Composing with Hearing Differences



Anya Ustaszewski: Composing 'Weird' Music

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