00:03These school-aged choristers have travelled across Australia to sing in harmony.
00:07And they're all being guided by sheet music in Braille.
00:11I love getting to socialise with people who are like me and understand sometimes what I have to go through
00:17and what I'm dealing with.
00:18And I love the music aspect because obviously everyone here loves music.
00:22These blind and vision impaired students are spending a week in camp together, turning Braille into brilliance.
00:29The sheet music uses the standard six-dot cell but assigns unique meanings to the dots to represent pitch, rhythm
00:36and expressions.
00:38Three decades after coming to the camp as a ten-year-old, Ben Clark is back as the musical director.
00:44I've worked mainly, sort of primarily as a teacher over the last sort of 25 years, but in and around
00:50that I've played quite a lot of jazz.
00:52As a community-funded camp, organisers admit they didn't think it would live to see its 40th birthday.
00:5892-year-old Roma Dix founded the camp with her late husband, Ian Cooper, who was a blind musician.
01:04By the end of the camp, there's just the happiest, fun group of kids and they're singing all the time.
01:12Seth Leggett is another former student who's returned to teach the next generation of singers.
01:17You gain experiences that you'll carry with you for life and you'll get lifelong friends.
01:23They'll come back next year and it'll just be like it was yesterday.
01:27Making connections and feeling the music.
01:30It's been great.
01:31It's kinda getting started to play except for all guests that you can hear at the Evergreen você.
01:32And that's a kid move on there and it'll be like the U.S.
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