Sottovoce has developed a real-time performance management platform to help orchestras monitor and reduce musicians’ noise exposure, promoting safer, more sustainable hearing health practices across the performing arts industry.
Barbara L. Kurman, AuD, an esteemed figure in the audiology industry, has reached remarkable milestones throughout her distinguished career.
MCK Audio, the company making HearHooks and Companion Mics, has just launched a new website offering detailed product information, case studies, and research on music practices during a pandemic.
Still located at www.sensaphonics.com, the new site features a “sleek, modern design with enhanced shopping functionality,” according to the company’s announcement.
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Over the past several years, the hearing aid industry has responded to the need for improved hearing aid processing for the listening to, and the playing of, music. Better-configured A/D converters and a number innovations have provided great solutions. Marshall Chasin explains why emulating a single-channel processor might be the next “big step” forward for audiophiles with hearing aids.
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Funded through a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of $455,982, the project’s long-term goal is to construct a profile that can be used by healthcare providers and educators to identify individuals genetically at risk for chronic tinnitus and help them prevent the condition.
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The typical image of a musician with hearing loss is someone like Beethoven, who lost his hearing long after spending a lifetime learning, playing, or composing aural music. What is lost in this image is the fact that there are individuals like myself, who acquire significant hearing loss shortly after birth or in early adolescence, yet fall in love with aural music during this same period in their lives.
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A 35-year hiatus from music due to hearing loss, and a new beginning due to dedication.
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The “one-ear aided, one-ear open method” for musical performing.
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Recommendations for a “Musicians’ Package” for Hearing Aid Users: A Smartphone app that has a 5- or even 10-band equalizer to modify music output. It should also be able to enable or disable automatic controls easily, such as feedback and attenuation levels, without a visit to the audiologist.
Read MoreSinger Karen Underwood’s hearing loss was insidious, slowly creeping up on her over the span of a decade until, one day, she decided, “I deserve a better quality of life!”
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Both appointments are effective immediately.
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Recently there have been news reports about famous musicians who can no longer perform their music and have chosen to retire. “By hook or by crook, that should not happen,” says Marshall Chasin, AuD.
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The development of an enhanced screening battery for NIHL can allow for earlier detection that could, in turn, prevent further hearing decline.
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Jenna Paley, AuD, is the third audiologist on the Sensaphonics staff. She will be organizing and presenting at educational events to promote hearing wellness with outreach to industry organizations, as well as visiting touring and local artists at venues and rehearsal facilities.
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In October, experts in safe sound at Sensaphonics held their final Gold Circle seminar of 2016, teaching audiologists hearing wellness principles and concert sound system basics, with a primary focus on in-ear monitors.
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Michael Santucci owns Sensaphonics, the only custom-only earphone manufacturer founded and operated by an audiologist. He has provided in-ear monitors (IEMs) to a diverse group of superstars and others with unique hearing monitoring needs.
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Touring musician Jeff Snider preserves his hearing with 2X-S custom in-ear monitors and a dB Check in-ear sound level analyzer from Sensaphonics, which have improved his onstage monitoring on the road.
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