Enabling Through Sound and Music

“Vistamusic” - Enabling through Sound and Music Introduction The aim of the program is to make it very simple to use and quick to learn but nevertheless be able to create a fine expressive performance of a piece of piano music, irrespective of ability to play the piano or the keyboard. On other words, to…

… but not ’Music Therapy’ which is a procedure used by “music therapists” This comes in three parts Part A.  Identifying the music which is therapeutic for the person  This vitally important. Fortunately, many people know themselves what type of music is therapeutic for them. Caution: it is not necessarily music that they would normally…

Sample files from my Vistamusic program. Click on the small triangles to play. 01 Spoken - Schumann's Traumerei 02 Traumerei 1 03 Spoken - Expresion 04 Traumerei 2 05 Spoken - More expression 06 Traumerei 3 07 Spoken - Complete performance 08 Traumerei 4 9 Spoken Mozart Piano Sonata in C 10 Mozart 1 11…

The vibro acoustic chair is a comfortable reclining chair with built in vibro acoustic units. The mounting of the units is important for two reasons. The active surface of the unit should be as flat as possible against the body. This means flexible mounting and secondly we don’t want to transmit vibrations to the body…

NOMENCLATURE It is very important that we do not insult the people we are trying to help. Deaf people do not like to be known as hearing impaired. Deaf people like to be called deaf not hearing impaired because they don’t consider themselves to be impaired people. When talking about deaf people, they prefer to…

VISTA MUSIC This is software I developed standing for visual and tactile music. This is the name I gave to software I developed myself for people who were going extremely deaf. It contained all the features described in “helping with hard of hearing” in a particularly convenient form including means to control relative volumes. It…