Music for PlayStation Press Pack

Music for PlayStation is a collection of musical vibration pieces made to be played back through the PlayStation Dualsense controller by Wellington, New Zealand based sound artist Jesse Austin-Stewart. 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. Music for PlayStation will be released on 25 November 2022.

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.

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

Supported by Creative New Zealand.

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Jesse Austin-Stewart

A picture of Jesse Austin-Stewart sitting on some steps in front of a red door and a white building. Jesse is wearing a black Daniel Ricciardo merch hat, a dark green shacket, and black pants. His tortoise shell glasses sit above his smiling face, wh

Jesse Austin-Stewart (he/him) is a disabled composer, sound artist, producer, and academic based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.

He recently submitted his PhD at Massey University researching accessibility within spatial audio, removing barriers of education, finance, and physical disability and hearing from the field. Jesse has had installations and performances at Christchurch City Art Gallery, play_station gallery, The Engine Room, Audio Foundation, The Pyramid Club, the Prague Quadrennial and more and has had work presented in Australia, Chile, USA, France, Japan, Germany, among other countries. Jesse has worked as a dance composer with Footnote New Zealand Dance and choreographers Pelenakeke Brown, Tyler Carney, Lauren Langlois and Kota Yamazaki.

Jesse is one of the 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Springboard award winners, has produced music with over 1 million streams, and work he has produced has been award nominated in the Student Radio Awards. He has curated a variety of exhibitions where diversity and inclusion is at the core of his creative practice. His most recent curation, Waterfront Monophony, saw over 2,900 people attend.