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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

What Happens To Music When You're Deaf?

If you only had a few minutes before you lost your hearing, what three songs would you listen to? British director Lindsey Dryden poses this question on her website, asking visitors for their "Panic Lists" -- answers have ranged from listening to "my son play jazz on any one of his three saxophones" to "Radiohead's Paranoid Android, because it is like listening to 3 different songs in one track." The prompt works conceptually as a prequel to Dryden's first feature film, in which it becomes a catch-22 -- what would you listen to after you lost your hearing?

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