Intentional | Audio Identity Blog

This story about 23-year-old Jessica Stone is heartbreaking. Sounds like it’s straight from Hollywood, but it’s a true story: if she wanted to live, doctors needed to remove a tumor lodged on her brain stem. And in the ensuing aftermath Jessica would no longer be able to hear.

So, if you had only 30 days left to hear, what would you want to hear?

Or what what would you want to hear yourself say?

Normally this type of trite hypothetical question can drive me batty, but considering that someone had to go through this first hand, specifically examining the value of sound in their lives, it’s something that sends chills down my spine.

Inspiring stuff. We have this remarkable, personal, dynamic filter through which we process our lives, and yet so little understanding of it. So much yet so little exploration of it. The sky’s the limit.

I need reacquaint myself with the mini-disc recorder. Need to get out of this fuzzy, often disconnected land of “strategy” and start living in the creative weeds of sound once again.

On with the weekend!

– Noel Franus