http://www.alldeaf.com/ en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:20:33 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.alldeaf.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.alldeaf.com/ http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-musicians/72067-texas-big-beat.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:03:31 GMT On November 1, 2009, Claz Edwards and I went to the Texas Big Beat, which was held at Bush Intercontinental Airport in northeast Houston. We and I brought our drum sets to play a song along with a total of 151 drum set drummers at this specific location plus hundreds of others networked across the Internet in Texas. This is a charity fund raising event having finished its third event (it happens once a year in the fall at various locations and started in 2007), and it benefits Cherish Our Children International and Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation. The other idea is to try to set a record of the largest number of DRUMSET drummers playing together at once. I don't know the count of of the total number of drummers.

Links are here:

Chron.com lineup video

Drumming Up Dreams - KIAH

Stephanie Ellison ]]> Deaf Musicians deafdrummer http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-musicians/72067-texas-big-beat.html http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-musicians/71380-design-project-music-hoh-deaf.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:09:01 GMT Hello, I'm an industrial design student at Carnegie Mellon University and for my senior project I am designing some sort of product that would enhance the way the Deaf and HoH experience music. I am considering doing something with vibration and bone conduction. I would also like to incorporate some kind of visualizer to the product, but I am not sure if it is very important.

If you like listening to music and have a minute or so to spare, could you please fill out this quick survey.
It would be of great help to me:
CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY

I will post a few sketches of some of my ideas very very soon. So if you can give me any feedback about my design, that would be great!

Thanks a lot! ]]> Deaf Musicians tante http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-musicians/71380-design-project-music-hoh-deaf.html http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-musicians/71216-upcoming-performance.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:40:29 GMT Hello guys,
I'm once again performing in the 9th Annual Music Masters Guitar Recital on Nov. 13th at the beautiful Douglass Theatre in Macon, GA. I'll be playing bass with a full band and performing Pink Floyd's stoner anthem "Comfortably Numb". The show is free and open to the public so if anyone is in the area you're welcome to drop in. You gotta bring your own dope, though. (just kidding :cool2:) ]]> Deaf Musicians Defmusicman http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-musicians/71216-upcoming-performance.html http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-musicians/71000-designing-instrument-deaf-hoh.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:31:59 GMT Hi

I should probably introduce myself as this is my first post here. My name is James and I'm a Product Design student at Loughborough University in the UK.

As part of our final year on this course we have to undertake a major project which involves the designing and prototyping a product of our choice.

I am a huge fan of music myself and play/try to play the guitar when possible! After doing a bit of research and realising that deaf and HOH people still love listening to and playing music, I'm looking to design an instrument specifically but not exclusively for deaf and HOH users. The initial insight came from Evelyn Glennie's talk on TED.com, Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen | Video on TED.com

I have an idea at the moment which unfortunately I can't go in to detail about. For now I'd really appreciate any comments anyone has about what it's like to play an instrument as a deaf or HOH person. Also, it would be great to hear how the experience varies between those who were born deaf and those who lost their hearing later in life.

Like Glennie, is there anyone here who uses the vibration feedback from an instrument to hear what is being played? It has been stated that Glennie was/is able to tell which note is being played by touching a wall in the same room. Can anyone here do this?

Any comments would be really appreciated. I'm genuinely passionate about delivering a solution which can help deaf people to learn and play music, I hope you can help : )

Cheers! ]]> Deaf Musicians jagdesign http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-musicians/71000-designing-instrument-deaf-hoh.html