What Do Spondees and Music (and Math) Have In Common?
It is almost as if music has something in common with everything: psychology, physiology, acoustics, engineering, most areas of the arts, and now, the lowly spondee.
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‘JAMA’ Study Shows Men Attending a Music Festival More Likely to Experience Temporary Hearing Loss
During the past two decades, the frequency of hearing loss among young people has increased and going to music concerts, clubs, and festivals may be part of the reason. Noise-induced hearing loss because of recreational noise exposure may be reduced by using earplugs.
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'JAMA' Study Shows Men Attending a Music Festival More Likely to Experience Temporary Hearing Loss
During the past two decades, the frequency of hearing loss among young people has increased and going to music concerts, clubs, and festivals may be part of the reason. Noise-induced hearing loss because of recreational noise exposure may be reduced by using earplugs.
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Registration Open for 2018 AES Conference on Music-Induced Hearing Disorders in Chicago
The conference will focus on strategies and technologies for safer long-term hearing outcomes in the music industry, and includes two days of papers and presentations augmented by lively panel discussions.
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Phonak Sponsors Free ‘Hear the Music Kids’ Camp’
The annual camp is among the key programs of Songs For Sound, a national charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for those with hearing loss.
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Research on the Effect of Musical Experience on Vocoded Speech Presented at ASA Annual Meeting
The applications of this research span beyond the understanding of vocoded speech to a variety of acoustical interpretation patterns.
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Speech Is Not a Broadband Signal…But Music Is
We tend to be biased, both in our training and in our technologies we use. We tend to look at things based on spectra or frequencies.
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A Novel Technique to Improve Amplified Sound Quality for Both Music and Speech
Recently there have been some technical innovations by some manufacturers that involve both reducing the input (such as with a compressor before the A/D converter) and also post 16-bit architecture.
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Starkey Hearing Technologies to Sponsor Two Summer Music Festivals
Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, Minn, is proud to be the official Healthy Hearing Sponsor for both the 2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival and Cities 97 Basilica Block Party, Starkey announced.
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Neuromonics Adds Personal Music Library Feature to Tinnitus Alleviator App
Individuals suffering from ringing in the ears now can seek relief with the music of their choice when using the Tinnitus Alleviator from Neuromonics, Inc., Westminster, Colo., a maker and distributor of patented and clinically proven medical devices designed for tinnitus relief, the company announced.
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Hear the Music Project Mobile Hearing Health Clinic to Visit Colorado Locations
Hear the Music Project, a hearing health mobile clinic designed by nonprofit Songs for Sound, will visit nine locations in Colorado in late April and May.
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Texas Music Festival to Host Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Accessible Concert in May
In recognition of May’s Better Hearing & Speech Month, the Good Vibrations Music & Arts Festival (GVMAF) will host the first fully-encompassing deaf and hard-of-hearing accessible concert on May 20, 2017 at the 1850 Settlement in San Antonio, Texas. Ticket sales and festival commissions will benefit Texas-based nonprofit, Aid the Silent.
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ASL Interpreters Help Visualize Lyrics at Musical Performances
For deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals, Amber Galloway Gallego provides visual and emotive cues at concerts as an interpretation of the artist’s performance, according to an article in Vox. Gallego is an American Sign Language (ASL) interpretor who has worked with 400 artists, many of them hip-hop performers.
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Expert Roundtable: Music & Hearing on the 100th Anniversary of Recorded Jazz
The guest-editors of this special Hearing Review Expert Roundtable provide a background for this special issue about music and hearing loss on the 100th anniversary of the first jazz recording.
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Promoting Safe Sounds in the Birth City of American Music
Hearing loss prevention helps maintain lifelong musical enjoyment. According to authors John Hutchings, MD, and Bethany Ewald Bultman, when performing or listening to music, one should always employ high-quality earplugs, avoid undue direct exposure to the sound, and limit alcohol intake which can lessen awareness of the pain of louder sounds.
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