Meet Steven.

It's been a hectic and rewarding few days here at Sound Became Color. I'm celebrating. On Monday I snuck onto Craig's List at the office and sent out a quick post offering $25 dollars a week for four weeks to do a survey testing headphones. The applicant must be deaf in one ear. A response came in five minutes later. A man named Steven who is completely deaf in right ear and a bit deaf in his left ear as well. I met with him at Real Guitars in the mission a few hours later. One of the guys was cool enough to lend me their ipod for a couple minutes so that I could try out my new Audio Bone headphones on steven. He could hear things through them. I told him that he had to wait a week before he could hear out of them because I wanted him to listen to a couple of my favorite albums with his natural hearing so that he could recognize change and help me document the metamorphosis as sound becomes color to the human mind. I wanted to find out how he hears naturally so that I could build questions to capture which sounds hide from the deaf as he makes his confusing journey from however he heard before today to letting himself hear stereo for the FIRST time. This morning Steven rode his bicycle 19.1 miles in the rain to go to Audio Bone's office to pick up his own pair of head phones. This is sort of funny because they are lending me the headphones to do this test. I was back at Steven's place by fourteen-thirty this afternoon discussing the situation. He was back at my house at nineteen-thirty this evening somewhat electric and covered in a mixture of happiness and shock. Today something happened. Tomorrow I'm going to film it happening again. Thanks everybody! Now were going somewhere.