Interior Design: Music for Cochlear Implant
The compositions were specifically tailored to the limitations of cochlear implant sound processors to provide a pleasant and enjoyable musical experience for cochlear implant users, allowing them to share the experience with their normal-hearing peers. To develop their pieces, the composers consulted with scientists and the Bionics Institute in Melbourne and collaborated with four adult cochlear implant recipients to test their ideas. Some composers used multimedia approaches, such as accessing software that could reproduce and sonify the output of a cochlear implant sound processor.
This concert highlighted a novel approach to addressing the limitations of cochlear implants in conveying complex musical signals, diverging from traditional efforts to optimize the sound processor itself.
Sample of the each piece can be heard here.
Photos © Anne-Sophie Poirier
Scientific Publications:
- New music for the Bionic Ear: An assessment of the enjoyment of six new works composed for cochlear implant recipients (2012)
H Innes-Brown, A Au, C Stevens, E Schubert, J Marozeau. 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) 8th. [pdf]
- Music for the cochlear implant: audience response to six commissioned compositions (2012) A Au, J Marozeau, H Innes-Brown. Seminars in Hearing 33 (04), 335-345. [pdf]
- Like Pots and Pans Falling Down the Stairs’. Experience of Music Composed for Listeners with Cochlear Implants in a Live Concert Setting (2014) Schubert, J Marozeau, CJ Stevens, H Innes-Brown. Journal of New Music Research 43 (2), 237-249. [pdf]
- Cochlear Implants Can Talk But Cannot Sing in Tune. (2014)J Marozeau, N Simon, H Innes-Brown.Acoustics Australia 42 (2) [pdf]