The University of Texas at San Antonio is collaborating with Harvard University and building devices for the blind and low vision community to experience the solar eclipse with sound.
“It has a high dynamic range of light sensors, so in bright lights it kind of has a flute sound, and as we go into eclipse, as the moon eclipses the sun, it gets dimer. So we go into a clarinet range. So the sound goes down when the light goes down. So from flute to clarinet, to a low clicking sound when you are in totality,” said Allyson Bieryla, an astronomer at Harvard University.
“For blind or visually impaired folks it’s been really wonderful to just be included in an event and thought about beforehand and not after,” Bieryla said. “Once we realized we we’re going to have these two eclipses in San Antonio, then we wanted to host a workshop here,” Lindsay Fuller, Eclipse Project Manager at UTSA said.
“They’ve heard of eclipses before, but that’s not really for me. I can’t see it or I can’t see it clearly enough and when they heard about these boxes and I demoed these boxes for them, they immediately got really excited. They were like, how can I get one,” Jensen said.San Antonio and the Hill Country have the rare luck of seeing two solar eclipses within six months.
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