dBs Institute MA Innovation in Sound graduate Amanda Wall goes public with her immersive music production project FEAR, which tackles insecure housing.
Amanda Wall, an MA Innovation in Sound graduate from dBs Institute’s Bristol campus, has been speaking to ITV and BBC Points West about her project FEAR; an immersive audio-visual experience that highlights homelessness and insecure housing.
FEAR resulted from her recently completed Innovation in Sound Master’s degree, and involved partnerships with Shelter, the UK’s most prominent homeless charity, and Bristol-based accessible music technology company Soundbeam.
Amanda’s journey from homelessness to her dBs Institute Master’s degree
“It was gruelling, demoralising, frustrating. There was no consistency for the kids… They didn’t know from one minute the next where they would be living,” said Amanda talking with ITV about her experience of homelessness and insecure housing, “It’s the judgement that it was down to drugs, alcohol, any assumption, other than I could have been living in dire …