20 Nov 2022

Jesse Austin-Stewart creates music for people of all types of hearing

From Standing Room Only, 12:48 pm on 20 November 2022
Jesse Austin-Stewart

Jesse Austin-Stewart Photo: supplied

Jesse Austin-Stewart

Photo: supplied

Sound artist and composer Jesse Austin-Stewart has created an album of music vibration compositions, designed to be felt rather than heard.

By holding a PlayStation Dualsense controller, the music can be experienced through the way changing patterns feel against your palms. 

Jesse is one of the 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Springboard award winners, and has produced music with more than 1 million streams.

For Music for PlayStation he's worked with the hearing-impaired community to create these works which will be available on streaming sites from 25 November.   As someone with a disability, he tells Lynn Freeman that he wanted to create music that offers a shared experience for everyone.