Blind Guy Travels

A series from Radiotopia Presents, a podcast of limited-run, artist-owned series from new and original voices.

How would you describe a world you’ve never seen? Blind Guy Travels invites you into life without sight. Join host Matthew Shifrin as he experiences a Marx Brothers comedy, creates an online dating profile, collaborates with LEGO to develop instructions for blind builders, and prepares for college graduation.

Blind Guy Travels is written and performed by Matthew Shifrin, and produced and sound-designed by Ian Coss.

All music in the series is written and performed by Matthew Shifrin.

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    meet the team

    Matthew Shifrin is a senior at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he studies voice and composition. He is the founder of Lego for the Blind, a system that allows blind and visually impaired people to build Lego sets independently. He is a first place winner of MIT’s Creative Arts Competition to support his work on virtual reality technology that enables blind people to enjoy movies. An avid rock climber, Matthew also enjoys playing the accordion, listening to podcasts, reading comic books, and is fluent in English and Russian.

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