Yoko Sen is a sound artist and founder of Sen Sound, whose vision is to transform the sound environment in hospitals. She collaborates with health care organizations on cultural transformation through sound experience design. Sen self-produced two albums: 012906, a Best Album in Electronica nominee at the 2006 Independent Music Awards, and Heaven’s Librray, which earned her the Washington Music Association Award for Best Electronica Artist. She’s been a Halcyon Incubator fellow, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts citizen-artist fellow, and an artist in residence at Johns Hopkins Sibley Innovation Hub and Stanford MedicineX. Open IDEO’s End of Life Challenge named Sen’s “My Last Sound” initiative a Top Idea.
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Alarms, intercoms, monitors, and other life-saving hospital equipment batter patients and clinicians alike with noise around the clock. The impact of that cacophony may be har...
Dan Porterfield, Margaret Low, and Peggy Clark kick off Aspen Ideas: Health. This session also features Big Ideas from Health presenters.