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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Stefano Esposito

Lyric Opera’s SoundShirt — a new way deaf, hearing-impaired patrons can experience music

Reporters try out the new SoundShirt during a rehearsal Tuesday of Lyric Opera’s “The Flying Dutchman.” The shirt allows wearers to “feel” music through vibrations that are activated by sound. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

The conductor steps to the podium and raises his baton in the darkened theater.

The flutter of flutes. The quiver of strings. And then you feel something tingling, vibrating about your shoulders — almost as though a pair of bees have somehow found their way into the theater and under your clothing.

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