It just got to the point where the braille was more complicated. He was really good at trying to make sense for me. He taught me the basics about what a sharp and a flat was, lengths of notes, so I was working from the ground up. He knew all of the technical stuff that I had no idea about. If you are talking about a piano, the braille gets even more complicated, because you are dealing with two hands and pedals.”Ĭhelsea said she was fortunate to have a teacher who was also a musician and helped her through her years as a band student: “I had a gentleman who is a teacher of the visually impaired who also just happened to have a music background. It got really complicated the further along I got and that was just for the clarinet. For my music, it was broken down by notes one symbol a whole note, one symbol meant a half note. You sometimes have to do multiple symbols to mean one thing or another in music. Braille has six dots in one group, so you have a limited number of dots you can have for one symbol. In print, there is a staff, measures, and clefs but we can’t represent that in braille because braille is not set up the same way as print is. For music, I decided on the clarinet because it physically looked relatively straightforward. Blind since birth, she says she is fortunate to have had an excellent experience in Massachusetts schools and was able to absorb a wide-ranging education, including music, which she learned in braille. He talks about love and about helping each other.”Ĭhelsea decided she wanted to transcribe ‘The Individualist’ into braille. Also, his lyrical messages are so relevant now. He’s the guy you want to ask questions about music production because that is what he does. That’s what I took from reading ‘The Individualist.’ This is exactly what I want to do in my life. Don’t do what everyone else does,” Chelsea said. She also appreciates Todd Rundgren’s non-conformist attitude which she discovered more fully after reading his 2018 memoir, ‘The Individualist.’ “Beyond the music, I respect his philosophy on life. Rex (Rundgren, Todd’s son) took her backstage to meet him.” Chelsea’s first meeting with Todd, during the Global tour.Īfter listening to the ‘Global’ album Chelsea’s verdict was, ‘This is my kind of music’. “Chelsea really became a fan of the Global tour I took her to that show because I knew she would like that music so that’s what did it for her.
Julie Dye has been a Todd Rundgren fan since 1972, and when he released his techno-style album ‘Global’ in 2015, Julie had a feeling the music would resonate with her daughter. We contacted Julie and invited her and Chelsea to come to Washington to attend the DC concert last night and the ceremony this morning. Longtime fan Julie Dye attended the May 6 show in Cleveland and presented Todd with a braille version of Todd’s book that Chelsea, her daughter who is blind, had made by hand.Īs the White Album tour was ending in Washington DC, Todd wanted to present the book to the Library of Congress (specifically the National Library Service For The Blind And Disabled division).Ī presentation at the Librarian of Congress Ceremonial Office was held this morning. Todd Rundgren’s official Facebook page posted an announcement of the event as follows: She and Chelsea were in for a surprise of a lifetime when they were recently invited to Washington, D.C., where Todd presented the book to the Librarian of Congress. Longtime Todd Rundgren fan Julie Dye didn’t know what to expect when she handed the musician a braille copy of his memoir, ‘The Individualist’, transcribed by her blind daughter, Chelsea, at a Meet and Greet session last May. Braille version of Todd Rundgren’s book ‘The Individualist’ presented to the Library of Congress Longtime Rundgren fan Julie Dye’s daughter Chelsea, who is blind, transcribes book into braille
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