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To design from the conditions under which people with disabilities are able to participate is to reconsider which demands a practice makes by virtue of how it has been organised, and what might become possible for everyone who takes part if those arrangements were open to revision. In music therapy, the time a person takes to answer a phrase may be constitutive of what we come to understand about an encounter, while the passage from what is apprehended in listening to what can be examined in the literature ordinarily presupposes an author who can see the page.
We coded a program through which a researcher can edit an academic paper and generate a futures studies report by voice alone. In the talk, we use it to qualify a claim in relation to what an observation can support, and to generate a report whose account of possible futures for music therapy depends on premises we articulate aloud.
De-ocularisation, then, concerns the terms under which a researcher who delegates part of this work to an AI system can still participate in determining what circulates in their name. We ask what the system would need to make apprehensible by ear for a blind or low-vision researcher to judge whether a revision has changed the scope of a claim or a report has introduced a premise of its own, and to intervene while the text is still theirs to revise.