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MEESH FRADKIN is a writer, sound artist, and PhD candidate in interdisciplinary music technology at McGill University. Fradkin is also a researcher at the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology. She is a Leonardo CripTech Incubator fellow and a visiting research scholar at NYU’s Center for Disability Studies.
MEESH FRADKIN is a writer, sound artist, and PhD candidate in interdisciplinary music technology at McGill University. Fradkin is also a researcher at the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology. She is a Leonardo CripTech Incubator fellow and a visiting research scholar at NYU’s Center for Disability Studies.
Meesh Fradkin; Plus noise unlock. Leonardo 2024; 57 (2): 147–152. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02495
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What happens when speech synthesis applications are incompatible with certain software? This essay considers how inaccessibility within the software and programming language Max is sonically, aesthetically, culturally, and ideologically amplified through a case study of “plus noise unlock,” which is the sound made by the author’s computer when she attempts to use a screen reader within a patcher window.
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