Gala music speaks without words: it surrounds the space, softens time, and turns the gathering into something memorable ...

We often think of music as a mostly auditory experience, but it’s also a physical one, especially for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Daniel Belquer — a Philadelphia-based technologist, ...

A mind-bending new suit straps onto your torso, ankles and wrists, then uses actuators to translate audio into vivid vibration. The result: a new way for everyone to experience music, according to its ...

To celebrate Disability Pride Month, Music: Not Impossible brought vibrating haptic suits to a Lincoln Center dance party. Vibrating haptic suits give deaf people a new way to feel live music When ...

In a nutshell: A Philadelphia-based company has developed a wearable haptic suit designed to let those who are deaf or have hearing loss experience music by turning notes into vibrations. On its ...

When Daniel Belquer was first asked to join a team to make a better live music experience for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, he was struck by how they had developed work-arounds to enjoy concerts.

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