John L. Drever operates at the intersection of acoustics, audiology, urban design, sound art, soundscape studies, and experimental music. He is Professor of Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-leads the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR). He has a special interest in soundscape methods, in particular field recording and soundwalking.

Andrew Hugill is Professor of Creative Computing at the University of Leicester. He is also a Professor of Music and his principal research areas are composition, musicology, and creative technologies. His publications include: The Digital Musician (Routledge), now in its third edition. He founded the Aural Diversity project.

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List of Contributors

1. John L. Drever and Andrew Hugill: Aural Diversity: General introduction
2. David M. Baguley: Aural Diversity: A clinical perspective

PART I: ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS AND SOUNDSCAPE

3. Julian Henriques, Eric Jauniaux, Aude Thibaut de Maisieres, and Pierre Gélat: Sound Before Birth: Foetal hearing and the auditory environment of the womb
4. John L. Drever: Phonating Hand Dryers: exploits in product and environmental acoustics, and aural diverse composition and co-composition
5. William Renel: The Auditory Normate: Engaging critically with sound, social inclusion and design
6. Matt Lewis: Listening with Deafblindness
7. Meri Kytö: Soundscapes of Code: Cochlear implant as soundscape arranger
8. Patrick Farmer: ¿¿
9. William J. Davies: Autistic Listening
10. Karla Berrens: Fire, Drums and the Making of Place During a Correfoc
11. Josephine Dickinson: Alphabetula
12. Ed Garland: Textual Hearing Aids: How reading about sound can improve sonic experience

PART II: MUSIC AND MUSICOLOGY

13. Samuel Couth: The Show Must Go On: Understanding the effects of musicianship, noise exposure, cognition, and ageing on real-world hearing abilities
14. Alinka Greasley: Diverse Music Listening Experiences: Insights from the hearing aids for music project
15. Andrew Hugill: Consequences of Ménière's Disease for Musicians, Their Music-Making, Hearing Care, and Technologies
16. Chris. J. H. Cook: Socialising and Musicking with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A case study from rural Cornwall
17. Matthew Spring: Thomas Mace: A hearing-impaired musician and musical thinker in the seventeenth Century
18. John D'Arcy: Do You Hear What I Hear? Some creative approaches to sharing and simulating diverse hearing
19. Balandino Di Donato: Sign in Human-Sound Interaction
20. Duncan Chapman: The Aural Diversity Concerts: Multimodal performance to an aurally diverse audience
21. Jay Afrisando: Music-Making in Aurally Diverse Communities: An artist statement
22. Simon Allen: Attention Reframed: A personal account of hearing loss as a catalyst for intermedia practice
23. David Holzman: Lost and Found: A pianist's hearing journey
24. Andrew Hugill: Composing with Hearing Differences
25. Anya Ustaszewski: Composing 'Weird' Music

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