echolocation.studio
Echolocation Studio
Welcome!
Hi! Im Taylor and I run this here to write, share and explore information about my life through music and human echolocation.
I have been an active echolocator since childhood. I have taught echolocation to over 100 people over the past 20 years. I decided in 2025 to get what knowledge I have learnt through my own experiences and the experiences of my students, down onto paper and shared here for free. I hope it can begin debate, dialogue and further academic research into human echolocation.
I have been using singing bowls as a form of music and running my own acoustic experiments since 2021. It has been challenging over the years to find honest facts about this musical instrument and over time built my own knowledge base from scratch. I decided in 2025 to share this wealth of information on this site while providing academic resources and referencing factual information.
My autistic sensitivities and my visual-audial synaesthesia makes me acutely aware of sounds in my environment. I hope by sharing my insights over time can help you explore sound with greater cognitive fidelity.
Common Questions
What Is Human Echolocation?
Daniel Kish, a world renowned expert on echolocation describes it as a way of seeing. Instead of using sight you’re using sound. You train your brain to take in that sonic information and construct images from patterns of sound reflection. This is a great starting point and there is a lot of complexity we are able to explore beyond a definition.
From the perspective that I’ve taught others before, I would describe echolocation as a skillset where one can learn spatial information contained in echoes in your environment. This is parallel to how one would describe eyesight and its ability for one to learn spatial information from their local visual environment instead.
What Is A Singing Bowl?
Imagine a bell turned upside down so the open rim faces the sky — that’s a singing bowl. When gently rubbed around the rim with a mallet, it can produce a long, steady tone that seems to shimmer in the air. These instruments belong to a wider family called friction idiophones.