Music for PlayStation (2022)

Music for PlayStation is a collection of musical vibration pieces made to be played back through the PlayStation Dualsense controller.

After plugging in your controller and setting it up, all you need to do is press play on the audio on your computer and you will start to feel the controller vibrate in your hands. Feel the way that the rhythms move from left to right and the way the changing patterns feel against your palms.

These tracks can only be felt, not heard. This music has been designed so that audiences of all types of hearing, whether hearing, hard of hearing, or d/Deaf, can engage with the music on equal terms.

Jesse worked with hard of hearing and d/Deaf artists in the concept development and writing of these musical works. This project is available on all popular streaming sites as well as free download on Bandcamp.

Supported by Creative New Zealand.

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Press

The Spinoff - The sound artist democratising music with a PlayStation 5 controller
NME - ‘Music for PlayStation’ uses controller vibrations to play music for hard of hearing players
RNZ - Jesse Austin-Stewart creates music for people of all types of hearing
Stuff - Technological innovation being used to improve access in the arts world
Arts Access Aotearoa - Music for PlayStation vibrates for music fans
MusicTech - Music For PlayStation musical vibration EP lets hard of hearing feel music “on equal terms”
Mixmag - 'MUSIC FOR PLAYSTATION' USES VIBRATIONS TO PLAY MUSIC TO THE HARD OF HEARING