Sound Without Sight podcast

In this episode, we welcome professional singer, actor, and voiceover artist, Sandra Gayer.

Sandra shares valuable insight into the importance of visual styling, stagecraft, and choreography. She explores how blind and partially sighted performers can develop these skills to deliver polished performances on stage and on screen.

If you’re listening to the audio-only podcast, there’s also a video version on YouTube.

This podcast was recorded live, at a Sound Without Sight webinar, featuring questions submitted by our community.

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In this episode, we welcome Chief North America Correspondent for BBC News, Gary O’Donoghue.

Gary shares valuable insights into:

• His career and how he navigated a very competitive sector to reach his current position;
• The techniques he uses in his role to deliver outstanding live content and analysis of the biggest stories in politics and society - on TV, radio, and online;
• The tools and equipment he uses while reporting.

If you’re listening to the audio-only podcast, there’s also a video version on YouTube. 

We also welcome guest host and BBC presenter, Emma Tracey. 

This podcast was recorded live, at a Sound Without Sight webinar, featuring questions submitted by our community.

Edited by Jay Pocknell and Tilly Gerra.

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In this episode, we explore how DiGiCo have made their new range of digital mixing consoles talk, with support from the Audio Accessibility Alliance. 

Representatives from DiGiCo demonstrate their technology prototype, codenamed “DiGiVoice”, which aims to make digital mixing workflows accessible to blind and low vision engineers.

We also hear from Jon and Michelle from the Audio Accessibility Alliance. 

The team share insight into the development process, plans for further refinement, and for making the technology available more widely. 

If you’re listening to the audio-only podcast, there’s also a video version on YouTube.

We start by meeting Mike, Digby, and William from DiGiCo.

The multitrack recording used in the demo is available for free from Telefunken Elektrokustik: https://www.telefunken-elektroakustik.com/multitracks/

This podcast was recorded live, at a Sound Without Sight webinar in May 2026.

Hosted and edited by Jay Pocknell

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In this episode of the Sound Without Sight podcast, artist and producer, Andre Louis, demonstrates VOCR - a third-party add-on for macOS that enables VoiceOver to recognise text and other visual elements that would otherwise prove inaccessible. 

Andre shares:

• Where to get VOCR and how to set it up,
• How to use VOCR to access graphical user interfaces, using examples such as Logic Pro's Quick Sampler and Spectrasonics Omnisphere,
• When VOCR’s AI image recognition can prove helpful in a music production context.

If you’re listening to the audio-only podcast, there’s also a video version on YouTube.

Andre starts by providing an overview of VOCR.

Notes and links: https://soundwithoutsight.org/replay-webinar-using-vocr-to-access-music-software-on-macos/

Get VOCR: https://github.com/chigkim/VOCR

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq8yOk2V-SU

Join next webinar: https://soundwithoutsight.org/community/webinars/

Andre's website: https://onj.me/

Webinar host: Jay Pocknell

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In this episode, we welcome Joey Stuckey, a performer, producer, studio owner, and accessible music tech connoisseur. 

Joey shares insight into:

• The solutions he has found throughout his career to enable him to produce and perform,
• How he runs Shadow Sound Studio,
• Accessibility trends he is noticing in the industry,
• His top picks for accessible music tech from this year’s NAMM Show.

Recorded at our February 2026 webinar, Joey begins by sharing how he originally got Into music and sound.

Hosted by Jay Pocknell and Tilly Gerra.

Notes: https://soundwithoutsight.org/joey-stuckey-qa-creativity-accessibility-and-authenticity/

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Notes and links: https://soundwithoutsight.org/lachi-qa-artist-producer-and-music-industry-executive/

Hello and welcome to the Sound Without Sight podcast. In this episode, we welcome Lachi, a musician, producer, CEO and all-round disability icon.

Lachi shares insights into her career journey so far, her organisation RAMPD, the process of writing her first book, and her approaches to songwriting and music production.

This podcast was recorded live, at a Sound Without Sight webinar in January 2026.

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In this episode, we welcome gaming accessibility consultant, SightlessKombat, who shares examples of some of the audio innovations that are improving access to video games. 

He shares clips showing how sound cues, narration and audio description are used to enable blind players to navigate and interact within game worlds and menus, as well as to support combat and driving.

SK also answers questions from our community. 

This podcast was recorded live, as part of the Sound Without Sight Monthly Meet-up for August 2025. If you’re listening to the audio-only podcast, there is also a video version on YouTube. We hope you enjoy!

Notes and links: SightlessKombat: Audio Innovations in Game Accessibility

Host: Jay Pocknell

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Notes and video version: https://soundwithoutsight.org/replay-now-playing-in-an-orchestra-at-the-bbc-proms-as-a-blind-musician/

In this episode, we welcome recorder player James Risdon. whose work has led him from Bach to Bowie, the Middle Ages to Minimalism. He recently performed with Paraochestra and the Breath at the BBC Proms. 

James speaks about his experience as orchestral musician, focusing on the Proms concert, including:

• The techniques he used to learn his parts, combining braille music and audio. 

• His experiences of navigating rehearsals. 

• And of course, performing in the Proms itself, including some audio clips…

This podcast was recorded live, as part of the Sound Without Sight Monthly Meet-up for September 2025, featuring questions from our community.

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In this episode, we explore the making of the BBC Radio 3 documentary, “Joining the Dots - 200 years of Braille Music”. 

We welcome Kevin Satizabal, the producer of the documentary, and Matthew Wadsworth, its presenter.

Kevin and Matthew share insights into:

• How they got into their roles.
• The inspiration behind the documentary.
• Its recording and editing process, and the gear they used.

They also share some clips and answer questions from our community. 

This podcast was recorded live, as part of the Sound Without Sight Monthly Meet-up for October 2025. 

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In this episode, we welcome Andre Louis, who composes a full track for our next season of podcasts in around an hour, using Logic Pro and Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol with a screen reader. Andre refers to the session as 'musical cheffing' and he takes suggestions for ingredients from attendees! He also answers questions from attendees throughout the session. 

This podcast was recorded live, as part of the Sound Without Sight Monthly Meet-up for July 2025. We hope you enjoy! 

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