Raymond Antrobus' The First Time I Wore Hearing Aids aims to make sound more inclusive for listeners by broadening the way in which we experience it.
. It was produced by Grammy-award-winning music producer Ian Brennan.
Realizing that he and Antrobus were both going to be at a festival in London the following month, he wrote to the poet to collaborate. And Antrobus was excited by that."I came to poetry through so many poets who also record their work," Antrobus says. The poet played some of Brennan's past work to his then 10-month-old son, who responded well to it."I wanted to be part of that enterprise with this album and with my poetry.
"[Music] was always one of the things that she was the most connected to, and certainly more sensitive to than others who had full hearing," Brennan says of his sister."I don't sound the same to you as I would to another person and I don't sound the same to Raymond as I would another individual or vice versa."
"Most of what's there is Raymond," Brennan says."So even the sonic elements you're hearing are Raymond, it's his voice."