Re: [Audyssey] blindness - Re: Announcement fromDraconisEntertainment

[Clement Chou]

Would have to agree with Thomas on this one. Even as someone who was born 
basically blind I do have somewhat of a concept of what black is. And like 
Thomas said, that's probably the closest you would come to describing total 
blindness. I actually had a fun experience going caving with a camp I was 
volunteering at. The children were all blind as were some of the volunteers, 
and one of the activities we did once we reached the far back of the cave 
was for all the sighted people to turn their lights off and just stand there 
and try and look around. Complete pitch darkness is what they saw... which 
would be the closest thing you could ever come to experiencing blindness 
since caves are said to be one of the darkest places on Earth. If you were 
in a cave for a few weeks with no light and when you finally did come back 
out of it, you would remain blind because of the fact that your eyes no 
longer had use for light and would be used to blackness. At least, that was 
what the guide said... :P.
As to portraying Space, I don't know how it could be done accurately in pure 
audio. I think Tom had a good idea, but in reality... you wouldn't be able 
to hear stars burning, or planets moving, since there is no air in space to 
move sound through. However, that would probably be the closest to 
portraying that vast void in audio. All those warblings and odd sounds so 
many space-related soundscapes provide is illogical and doesn't make sense. 
lol 


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