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Speaker 1
0:00
Hi, Remy, thank you so much for appearing on today's enabled and academia podcast episode. We're really excited to have you. And it's my first time recording in person and like a studio in a way. So it's really cool. Fantastic. Okay, so normally the first question I ask all my guests is, can you tell us about your research interest in sort of a bit of information about yourself?
Speaker 2
0:21
Yes, thank you very much. My name is Remy up at sea. And I moved up to a researcher at King's College London, my research interest is exploring the accessibility of DAW and did a blaming digital audio workstation to blind music producers visually impaired producers. And the inspiration behind these area of inquiry is that a lot of the digital audio workstation we have I mean, these are audio workstation as simply music software, the software in which you're using composing, mixing and mastering sound audio production generally. So these software's are quite visual based, I mean, they are graphic based is a graphical representation of sound wave, if you see what I mean. So, graphical representation of sound waves. And the screen reader that blind people use in accessing digital content content are usually not compatible with this graphic element of anything at all. Although in this context, we are talking about digital audio workstation. And that is why I'm so keen on finding, exploring that aspect. Because when we talk about inclusivity a lot of people brag about how technology has revolutionised the music industry, and how it has democratised the industry that the big money of some sort have been broken. But in this context, if you talk about democratisation, and you still have a demographic of the industry, not given the opportunity to play their role, like every other regular person inclusivity is not there. And what is the essence of democracy? democratisation that ostracise on people. And my argument in this position of customers is not to dismiss the democratisation of the industry, by technology best that has happened. But I think I am had gained that. democratisation in in in the context of music production should be seen as a process rather than a true reflection of what the industry is about. So maybe I'm okay. That's, that's, that's the about my work for that. Yeah.
Speaker 1
3:07
Okay. That's so amazing and insightful. And it's so interesting about music and creativity as well, because we tend to have guests that are more like for like, law backgrounds or like STEM background, like humanities. So having a creative is so interesting for Yeah, okay, so my second question is, How has kacl King's College London Disability Services helped you?
Speaker 2
3:33
Whoa, yes. I'm there. They have been of immense help. Yeah, you know, sometimes I wish I could find something to criticise them about it, but I have I have none actually have known because they, I mean, I've been well support. I've received immense support by the disability service. Every contact I have there have been very responsive and responsible. So they have really made my study. quite encouraging, because, as a blind researcher, you have to go through a lot. Yeah, it's a tough one, you know, you have to do more. I mean, doing more than the regular is the social currency, that blind people using transact in navigating around the so the Disability Support has been really helpful from my first contact with them before my enrollment, you know, the necessary advice I needed and guiding me through the available resources and making the space encouraging me mean, I mean, we are speaking in my little space in the library. Of course, I use it more than a lot of people. So and I get this as part of the accessible measure that KCL app put in place for folks like me to have explosive study, because I use screen reader, I cannot be using these in the middle area in the library