Embark on a woodland adventure to learn about your hearing health.
Hearing Birdsong allows you to screen yourself for hearing loss in the comfort of your own home.
If you don’t have time to test our full prototype, you can listen to a sample of our soundscape here.
Explore a richly detailed forest soundscape, teeming with wildlife.
Encounter familiar songbirds,
and get to know their melodies.
Gain valuable insights into
your hearing health - and what
you can do to protect it.
Lose yourself in five immersive chapters.
Hearing Birdsong is lead by Tom Woods, co-founder of Kennedy Woods, a design studio that creates positive social impact through user-centred design & architecture.
Practitioners, researchers, engineers, designers and people with hearing loss have all participated in it’s development.
A series of sound installations have been exhibited to engage members of the public and consult with them on the design.
Angela walks in the woods.
She knows the old routes like she knows the length of her stride or the back of her hand. She knows how the light plays through the leaves in autumn and the exact density of the frozen earth in winter. She knows the smells of the seasons. But most of all she knows the songs of the birds that greet her; the little melodies of her daily pilgrimage.
One day, the songs start fading. They fade so softly and so slowly that Angela doesn't hear them slipping away. But they keep fading. And one day Angela is walking in the woods, and there are no more melodies.
Of the 12 million adults with hearing loss in the UK, 9 million of these are living without the benefit of hearing aids.
Angela's story inspired us to change this.
Meet the cast …
Wren
4 - 8 kHz Very High
Cheerful, clear and ebullient
Song Thrush
3 - 4 kHz
High
High, arresting and brilliant
Blackbird
1 - 2 kHz Medium
Mellow, flute-like and musical
Cuckoo
350 - 750 Hz Medium Low
Communicative and rhythmic
Collared Dove
250 - 350 Hz Low
Soft and mellow
