WE SPOKE TO A MAN WHO'S BEEN DEAF HIS WHOLE LIFE ABOUT HEARING MUSIC FOR THE FIRST TIME

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 SPORK! 0 Comments

How long could you cope without music for? In terms of addiction, it’s not exactly heroin, but as anyone who has embarked on a long distance journey with an MP3 player that is devoid of battery will tell you, going without music is hard. Imagine then, being unable to hear properly for your entire life. Austin Chapman has struggled with profound deafness since birth until a year ago, when he received a new set of hearing aids that changed his life. To him, it was like seeing the world through a pair of high definition 3D goggles, when he’d previously only witnessed monochromatic pixelated visuals. It changed his perception of everything. 

With a lifetime worth of music to catch up on he posted on Reddit, asking people to tell him what music to listen to. Eager to find out what a previously deaf man’s perception of music is, and eager to hear his story, I sat down with Austin and asked him a few questions. 

Read the full article at Noisy.Vice

(http://noisey.vice.com/blog/we-spoke-to-a-man-who-has-been-deaf-his-whole-life-about-hearing-music-for-the-first-time)