Making Music Blind During Covid by Noé Socha




Happiness Between Tails show

Summary: <p>#COVID-19 #Musicians #Creativity #Disabilities</p> <p>Did Covid impact your creativity? Noé Socha, a musician, discusses how being blind makes navigating lockdowns especially difficult. Record your questions, thoughts, and/or experiences on <a href="https://anchor.fm/depe9"><u>my Anchor by Spotify page</u></a> — or comment at <a href="http://happinessbetweentails.com/"><u>HappinessBetweenTails.com</u></a> — or <a href="mailto:ContactdaAL@gmail.com"><u>email me</u></a>. Like what you hear? <a href="http://buymeacoffee.com/SupportHBT"><u>Buy me a coffee</u></a>. <a href="http://buymeacoffee.com/SupportHBT">buymeacoffee.com/SupportHBT</a></p> <p><strong>Time Stamps (where segments begin):</strong></p> <ol> <li>HBT introduction</li> <li>Today’s topic and about today’s guest 1:05</li> <li>“My Experience as a Blind Musician During Covid,” by Noehh Socha</li> <li>My question for you and outro</li> <li>HBT outro</li> </ol> <p><strong>Links used for the HBT blog post of this episode:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.noemusic.net/"><u>Noé Socha's website</u></a>.</li> <li> <a href="https://wp.me/p6OZAy-1dVx"><u>Original blog post for this episode at Happiness Between Tails</u></a>.</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway"><u>About Ernest Hemingway at Wikipedia</u></a>.</li> <li> <a href="https://youtu.be/XjiUe6jNZ_o"><u>One of Noé’s many music videos at his YouTube Blind Selfie channel. In this one, Kenya appears as a backup dancer</u></a>.</li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBFjSMB16wE"><u>Video for CBS New York News interview of Noé</u></a>.</li> <li>Info on where Noé grew up in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpi,_Emilia-Romagna"><u>Carpi, Italy</u></a>, and a video of the <a href="https://youtu.be/CBVXg8CHmrk"><u>how the lovely place coped with an earthquake</u></a>.</li> <li>Spotify, where he’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2Jnr57x0a0ECygSRi6f15n"><u>released albums</u></a> and garnered top awards from the Berklee College of Music and Billboard Magazine.</li> <li><a href="https://breedlovemusic.com/acoustic-guitar-artist/noe-socha"><u>Breedlove, an Oregon guitar manufacturer that added him to their stellar lineup of signature artists.</u></a></li> <li>The oldest harmonica manufacturer, <a href="https://www.seydel1847.de/en_US"><u>Seydel</u></a>, a German company founded in 1847, invited him to collaborate; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/1362280650/posts/10224667965110846/?d=n"><u>here Noé demonstrates one of their harmonica holders on his Facebook page.</u></a> </li> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/0FpZrejhU-I"><u>Video where Mastercard recognizes he’s “Something Priceless.”</u></a></li> <li><a href="https://access.nyc.gov/programs/access-a-ride/"><u>Access-A-Ride made it possible for him to not need to take public transportation.</u></a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Photos available at the HBT post for this show:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Photo of Noé playing music.</li> </ul> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/depe9/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/depe9/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/depe9/support</a>