Music For the Deaf

Music For the Deaf

Ask any hearing someone which of their five senses is used to enjoy music. Most likely, their response will be "My sense of hearing." The joy of music involves much more than the auditory processing of sound waves.

Many of us have had a inescapable feel while driving that clearly illustrates this point. You sense that a car arrival up from behind has the music turned all the way up. You feel the music thumping in your chest as the car rushes past you. Your car vibrates to the other driver's music. Even if you don't recognize the song, you feel that bass with your whole body. That's not the sense of hearing, it's the sense of touch.

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Many citizen listen to music while working at their computer. Music played on a computer often includes an on-screen light and pattern show. When we go to a concert, we reply to the ultimate lighting effects. We see the keyed-up faces of the other audience members and share in the excitement of our own companions. This is visual and emotional enjoyment of music, which we usually classify as an auditory event.

We have all heard stories about the overwhelming plasticity and adaptability of the brain. In the human brain there is a specialized golf-ball sized area over the left ear. In hearing people, this area processes sound and someone else area of the brain processes vibrations. In deaf people, it has been shown that this golf-ball sized area adapts itself to process vibrations in increasing to the area that is already programmed for vibrations. This adaptation can aid in giving deaf citizen a unique and very rich appreciation of music.

Deaf people's enjoyment of music can be enhanced with training and assistive equipment. The tool can go from highly low-tech to state-of-the-art. On the low-tech end, a uncomplicated balloon held in the fingertips can send airborne vibrations highly well. A device that hooks over the ears and wraps behind the head contains a remarkable vibrator that sends sound vibrations through the wearer's head. For a number of years in many schools there have been platforms mounted on springs and equipped with specially-adapted speakers that allow students standing or sitting on the platform to feel a wide range of musical sounds through their feet and bodies. A chair is in amelioration that has air jets, vibrators and a floor plate to give a total-body feel of all the distinct instruments and variations of sound produced by a full orchestra.

Music is a multimedia event that can be enjoyed by the hearing and the deaf. Technology is advancing every day that will give deaf citizen a fuller and deeper musical feel in the very near future.

Music For the Deaf

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