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TEMPORAL IMAGERY FOR AURAL DIVERSITY: AUDITORY DISPLAYS AS ARTIFACTS OF SONIC ART ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN UNAIDED AND COCHLEAR IMPLANT LISTENERS
TEMPORAL IMAGERY FOR AURAL DIVERSITY: AUDITORY DISPLAYS AS ARTIFACTS OF SONIC ART ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN UNAIDED AND COCHLEAR IMPLANT LISTENERS
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Ramakrishnan, Sharath Chandra
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This paper advocates for the position that aurally diverse methodologies
for designing auditory displays are needed, that not only
take into account varied hearing capacities, but also conceive of
a participatory and trans-disciplinary approach for collectively engaging
diverse forms and conversations about listening, and shared
associations with auditory imagery. Further, in light of the complex
history that the notion of hearing disability and the evolution
of commercial sound technology has had within the normalizing
agenda of medical institutions, a call for methods of engagement
that necessarily depart from the ubiquitous model of clinical
testing for the ideal ‘ear’ is made. The paper illustrates this
position by extrapolating possibilities within the context of a subset
of machine mediated listening, specifically cochlear implant
based listening. It proceeds by speculating how auditory displays
that rely on temporal perception may produce shared associations
in auditory imagery, and a meeting ground for unaided listening
and cochlear implant based listening in the social acoustic world.
Building upon previous work by scholars who originally conceptualized
the notion of auraldiversity, the paper identifies a list of creative
propositions to serve as a guide to shape outcomes and participatory
modes of engagement using sonic arts practices. These
include methods from sound art practitioners that have creatively
dealt with affordances of sound to question normative listening,
explore new aesthetics of sound, and blend collaborative processes
with cognitive aspects of social listening through a collective elicitation
of auditory imagery. By diversifying the process of designing
auditory displays, we can challenge and contrast traditional
models of testing for the ’ideal’ ear, to re-route auditory display
research and design towards embracing hearing diversity. The paper
invites the reader and the wider auditory display community to
frame more such opportunities to adopt participatory methodologies
for designing sonification for aural diversity.
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2024-06
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