Music in Braille
Labour Day, Monday, 26 October 12:00 pm
Lisette Wesseling explains the nuts and bolts of working with music in braille.
- Music in Braille
- Lisette Wesseling explains the nuts and bolts of working with music in braille. (duration: 41′44″)
from (26 Oct 2009) - Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
Braille is an important component in many blind peoples’ lives, and some of those blind people are musicians.
Our Labour Day Special programme focuses on Louis Braille’s adaptation of his six-dot reading and writing system for the blind to represent the language of music.
Braille awareness consultant for the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind, Lisette is also a soprano and studied voice in Auckland, Melbourne and London, with a special interest in early music – and she uses Braille music. Lisette is joined by Stephen Bennett, Ken Joblin, Àine Kelly Costello, Moya Michalachis and Wendy Richards.
This year is the bicentenary of the birth of Louis Braille and as well as celebrating this, Music in Braille marks the start of the New Zealand Foundation of the Blind’s annual Blind Week appeal (Oct 27 to November 2).
Audio for this programme will be available after broadcast. Please note for copyright reasons it will not include the music featured in the on-air version.
Supplementary Audio
One in Five for 1 February 2009
Marking the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille's birth: putting the case for Braille and accessible website technology.
One in Five on 01 Feb 2009, Radio New Zealand National
One in Five - Sunday, 07 Jun 2009
The Blind community celebrates the Braille renaissance and one of its senior citizen tackles the new technology and old-style bureaucracy.
One in Five on 01 Feb 2009, Radio New Zealand National
Information
Louis Braille
(January 4 1809 - January 6 1852)
Produced by Shelley Wilkinson
Music
Get track details here.
References and links
John Tighe’s quote is from: Pioneering a Vision: Ken Catran and Penny Hansen
Published by the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind
Private Bag 99941, Newmarket, Auckland
Goodfeel Braille Music Translation Software
Sharp Eye Music Scanning Programme