AT&T Feel The Music - ASL Music Video

Feel The Music 'Subway Serenade' Different Colors by Walk The Moon.

AT&T Feel the Music is an innovative, social project designed to expand musical access to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community - helping them celebrate, experience and share in their love of music.

The ASL video "Subway Serenade" features the hit single "Different Colors by WALK THE MOON." The video was directed by Deaf - an award-winning director who happens to be Jules Dameron - in conjunction with D-PAN, Deaf Professional Arts Network. The production crew was also comprised predominantly of artists from the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.

The Behind the Scenes Video is an inside look at how the ASL music video "Subway Serenade" was created including interviews with the creative team, director, production company, WALK THE MOON's management and AT&T executives.

The cast of "Subway Serenade" features several actors who are appearing in Deaf West Theater's current production of "Spring Awakening" opening September 27th on Broadway. The video was fully-choreographed and shot in one continuous take.

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Get tickets to Spring Awakening: http://broadway.com/shows/spring-awakening

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Cymatic Lighting 'Visual Sound' System For Deaf

WATCH [CC] - Cymatic Lighting: A Modern "Visual Sound" System for Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

An AT&T Connectability Challenge open source Cymatic Lighting system allows Deaf and Hard of Hearing to see music & alerts using Arduino & digital LEDs.

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Video produced by CymaSpace for the AT&T Connectability Challenge: http://connectability.challengepost.com

Related: Convo Lights App Connected Philips Hue

Sign Language Telephone - Documentary Film

Bell Labs project for the Deaf to communicate over telephone lines using American Sign Language.

This 1979 film examines a Bell Laboratory research project conducted by Kenneth Knowlton and Vivien Tartter. The team devised a way of using 27 points of light placed on an individual’s hands and face to allow the hearing impaired to use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate remotely.

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The goal was to find a way to take images of the points of light at each end of a conversation so the images “could be coded to the capacity of one telephone line.” Thus ASL, the primary language for most Deaf people, could be used to conduct conversations over standard telephone lines, without requiring any greater capacity than a regular phone call.

Knowlton was a prominent figure at Bell Labs for many years and is well represented in other videos on the AT&T Archive Channel. At the time this film was made Tartter was a linguist at Rutgers University and continues today as a professor at City College in New York.

In 1981, two years after this video, Tartter and Knowlton published a paper in the scientific journal Nature detailing their work and findings at Bell Labs. The article, “Perception of Sign-Language from an Array of 27 Moving Spots.” details the methods and results of the project, including a transcript of a sign language conversation conducted via television using their method. The paper concludes that the “demonstration suggests the possibility of developing a sign language telephone.” A New York Times article about the published piece soon followed and the subject drew attention in newspapers across the country.

While the system the team conceived was never developed into a final, usable technology, it is a fascinating step in the long procession of efforts to find ways for the Deaf to use the telephone for communicating, as in 2009 when AT&T received the TDI James C. Masters Promotion Award “for providing innovative products and services that address the needs of people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.“

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