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Singing heavy metal in sign language
Brut America
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4/25/2022
This ASL interpreter is bringing metal music to the head bangers of the deaf and hard of hearing community.
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00:00
I will never know what it is to be deaf because I am a hearing interpreter, but what I love
00:17
about my job is being able to provide complete access.
00:25
It's being able to look at the words and see what the lyrics actually are, but then it's
00:29
taking that and working with it and translating it into sign language.
00:37
We start trying to find as many lyrics, as many possible set lists, popular songs, entire
00:47
discographies, everything that we can find about a band, and we try to get prepared for
00:52
it.
00:53
Because ASL is its own language with its own grammar structure and its own vocabulary,
00:59
things in English don't directly translate into ASL.
01:03
You want to try to be able to give access to those feelings, that you can feel that
01:08
intensity of the music as it rises and as it falls, as it gets quieter.
01:28
There's not one specific hard-of-hearing person, so we have clients that range from
01:46
those that do choose, that want to sing along.
01:51
There are some that can hear some of what's being said.
01:55
There are others that can't hear any of the lyrics, but can feel the vibrations so strongly
02:02
that they can follow along perfectly.
02:05
Whatever their experience is, we're able to provide everything else.
02:11
We're able to provide that little piece that they might be missing.
02:21
Most of my time is actually spent in the classroom, and a lot of it is for students
02:27
or for faculty, staff, and sometimes we have for visitors for special events, such as concerts.
02:36
So that kind of just happens to be a little side bonus of what I get to do.
02:40
I have always been interested in sign language.
02:43
I was a kid that just picked up on a lot of the visual aspect of ASL.
02:50
I didn't have anybody in my family or a relation or friends or anything like that that were deaf.
02:55
I just happened to get my hands on an ABC book, and I fell in love with it.
03:01
It's such a big part of who I am that I couldn't imagine doing anything else.
03:05
There isn't a plan B. If this never worked out, I don't have a plan B.
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