Something’s gone wrong with my eyes. Should be all right in a month or so but I can’t read or watch TV or movies. That ought to suit a radio reviewer, but the thing is – I miss all of those things. Visuals are easier to consume. Finding sound sufficient takes focus.
“On Saturday morning I went for a bike ride up on the hills. On Monday I reported for surgery. On Wednesday I was blind,” says Californian architect Chris Downey in “Hearing Architecture” (16 June, 11.30am), an edition of Art of Now that taught me a lesson or two. After losing his sight in his forties after the removal of a brain tumour, Downey assumed he’d have to abandon his line of work, but has instead thrived designing “acoustically dynamic buildings”.
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