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Interior Design: Music for Cochlear Implant


In 2012, a concert was held in Melbourne featuring six 10-minute pieces composed by Australian new-music composers Robin Fox, Rohan Drape, Ben Harper, Natasha Anderson, James Rushford, and Eugene Ughetti. The concert took place at the Fairfax Studio at the Arts Centre Melbourne and included a combination of live instruments played on stage and pre-recorded instrumental, vocal, or synthesized audio.

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

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