Courtesy: KevinKern.com
MusicNotes.com has this weekend published an interview with Kevin Kern, the pianist and composer, who was kind enough to send me a copy of his latest CD, Endless Blue Sky
Kevin is blind, and uses Sibelius along with the screen reader JAWS and a set of specially-created JAWS scripts and a ManuScript plug-in called Sibelius Access (written by an equally remarkable man called Dan Rugman, about whom I’ve written before).
Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
As far as composing goes, initially, I would get a good idea and then forget some key part of it before having the chance to put it on tape. Once music production software like Cakewalk and Sonar became accessible for the blind, I could not only hear my melodies, but my orchestrations as well. This last element was crucial because it helped me develop the musical voice my fans know today. However, it wasn’t until Sibelius notation software was made more blind-friendly that all the pieces came together.
Check out the rest of the interview here.
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