Worldbuilders Project – Immersive audio stories for people living with Parkinson’s disease

Interviewing:  Hanna Slattne – PhD Researcher
Immersive audio stories for people living with Parkinson’s disease

Adventures in Metaplasticity explore ways the body engages with the environment, through immersive sound, performance and story. 

Hanna joins Tessa Ann and Janelle to chat about her Worldbuilders Project.

You can view Hanna’s interview on Episode 5 of the Online Summit:

https://tessaunltd.podia.com/sound-space-connect-video-series-may-2023

Hanna’s background is in performance, with a focus on storytelling, dramaturgy, and immersive audio.  Adventures in Metaplasticity was developed as part of a practice-based PhD in which she created immersive audio stories for people living with Parkinson’s Disease to explore how this medium could help with mobility and motor symptoms brought on by the illness.

Word and sound connecting the body to an imagined virtual space in first person her focus was on the dramaturgy of this challenge. How to incorporate the different layers of sound, text and motor imagery and which narrative techniques best support the 1st person perspective. 

In this presentation, as well as the audio story examples, Hanna has included a 10-minute video, presenting her project, its aims and challenges in more detail, along with a short video explaining the connection between the condition of Parkinson’s and this project. 

You can view Hanna’s interview on Episode 5 of the Online Summit:

https://tessaunltd.podia.com/sound-space-connect-video-series-may-2023