Music And Hearing Analysis

Headphones have been in use for over a century, yet they have only recently become a topic of debate. Headphones are a way for people to listen to music, audiobooks, or whatever they like privately without disrupting others around them. However, all of this private listening may soon be falling on deaf ears. In Virginia Heffernan’s article “Against Headphones”, she presents a valid argument stating that although headphones are useful in some professions, they are causing substantial hearing loss, especially in young people. The formulated argument effectively incorporates ethos, logos, and opposing viewpoints with rebuttals, but could be strengthened in some areas to increase effectiveness.

The cochlear implant is a incredible device that all started out in the 1950s, when "Lundberg performed one of the first recorded attempts to simulate the auditory nerve with a sinusoidal current during a neurosurgical operation"(MAJOR BREAKTHROUGHS! (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2015, from http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BI108/BI108_2001_Groups/Cochlear_Implants/history.html ). After the operation his patient was able to hear noise. This device as been changing peoples lives for a long time, with time it has improved. there are other things in this world that changed people lives, that benefits them, so

Over the last years earphones reached the zenith of their success, due to the fact that are portable audio system compatible with any electronic device. Also, they are affordable for everyone with a tremendous variety of prices, colors, brands and size. In addition, it is immensely attractive to have at least one and listening to music everywhere all day. Consequently, the majority of people from youth to senior used them for long periods of time. Even though, as the video This Toddler Might Never Hear Music Again (2015) shown on YouTube by Listen Carefully user, headphones are not beneficial when they are used at a high volume, it can cause permanent hearing loss. Furthermore, This Toddler Might Never Hear Music Again video can be analyzed based on its audience, purpose, structure and language.

There are two types of HPDs are available i.e. passive HPDs and active HPDs. In passive hearing protection, devices provided constant and steady noise attenuation while active hearing protection devices give communication facility, noise reduction, and amplitude technique. The conventional passive HPDs reduce the signal power by a fixed amount and do not consider the decibel level and also do not consider either to be speech signal or the noise. This type of earmuffs and earplugs interfere the speech communication. There are two types technology for active hearing aids are presented in the market i.e. analog and digital. The digital signal processing (DSP) provides some advantages over analog processing such as speed, accuracy, easy to carry out, and flexibility. Although so many years have passed, first implemented the DSP algorithms in the HPDs, the user is still not satisfied with the hearing aids and still facing disadvantages, the main reason is these devices unable to simulate with the human auditory system properly

Advancements in Information Technology have now made it possible to restore hearing to the profoundly deaf by inserting a prosthetic device called the Bionic Ear (also known as the Cochlear Implant) in an individual’s inner ear. The Bionic Ear technology is an example of design and innovation combined with information processing, software design and development. Since it was first invented, technology advancements proceeded on a parallel track in terms of miniaturisation and increasing sophistication of this Bionic Ear technology. This particular technology operates by delivering electrical stimuli to the auditory nerve which then triggers auditory

Music is a common word used in our daily life. However, people have divergent perceptions of music. A lover of classical western music might call contemporary rock music nothing but noise; a Muslim might be offended if people regard their melodious recitation of Qur’an as music, because music has no place in religious observance as a profane art1.

Many international health organizations say that this is the leading disability throughout the world and much of it can be prevented, since many of the causes can be fixed by changing the person’s approach to it. For example, if someone is attending a concert, it would be a good idea to get earplugs according to Susan Kaplan, an audiologist with the UC Davis health system (Meyer). However, not many people do this and as a result, have substantial hearing loss. A symptom of hearing loss, tinnitus, is being seen in teenagers ever increasingly suggests a study done in Brazil (“Earbuds Threaten Hearing”). Tinnitus is ear noise like hissing, buzzing, roaring, beating, pulsing, chirping, ringing, whistling, clicking, or different noises in one or both ears or in the head, with no external cause. There are two types of tinnitus, objective or subjective. Subjective is usually connected with hearing loss, since it means only the person experiencing the problem can hear the sounds. There are many ways to test people to see if they have tinnitus or some kind of hearing loss. A few ways are a physical examination of the person’s head and neck, The Rinne and Weber tests, magnetic resonance angiography or venography, or a blood count (“Tinnitus”). These can tell which ear is damaged and even

To understand the true definition of music, a person must be able to understand the basic elements of music. Yes, everyone on Earth can give you a basic definition of music and some may just be able to explain how certain pieces of music makes them feel, but do they really understand it? To better understand the music they are listening to and to better understand the beat or the tempo, a person has to look deeper into the piece; they have to go behind the scenes of music.

The Sound of Music is a musical that tells the story of a family living in Austria during the years leading up to World War II. The movie begins with Maria, a failed nun, becoming a governess to a family consisting of seven children and their widowed father. As the film develops, Maria falls in love with the kids and their father, Captain Georg von Trapp. The Captain is a decorated, retired officer of Austria’s imperial navy who strongly opposes the Nazis. Maria and the Captain eventually get married and their family forms a singing group called the von Trapp family singers. Later in the film, after the Anschluss occurs, Georg is told that he must accept a commission in the German navy, causing him and Maria to flee to Switzerland with their children.

In 1992, McBride, Gill, Proops, Harrington, Gardiner, & Attwell conducted a study among classical symphony musicians. Sound level measurements during five rehearsals and two performances were taken. An audiometric questionnaire and hearing thresholds were measured by clinical pure tone audiometry. It was not noted whether hearing protection use was advised or recommended. This study concluded that there is a potential for occupational noise induced hearing loss within professional classical musicians. More recently, Jansen, Helleman, Dreschler, & de Laat (2009) investigated a different group of classical musicians using a larger audiological test battery including: a self-report questionnaire, measuring hearing thresholds, loudness perception, diplacusis, tinnitus, speech perception in noise, and otoacoustic emissions. It was concluded that most of the musicians tested had normal hearing but tinnitus, diplacusis, and hyperacusis were more prevalent among this group than what would be typically expected. Schmidt, Pedersen, Paarup, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Andersen, Poulsen, & Bælum (2014) also looked at hearing loss and sound exposure in the classical musician. By obtaining hearing thresholds and a self-reported questionnaire with instrument type and exposure included, it was concluded that NIHL will occur due to the sound exposure time and levels that symphony

However, just because earbuds are commonly used, doesn’t mean they are the best for hearing health if used improperly. Being cautious on the duration and volume when using earbuds can greatly impact the results of hearing health in earbud users. Earbuds are now a revolutionary item that has been introduced into this generation along with many other profound technologies, though it is not the best item when it comes to benefiting the health of hearing as it can lead to hearing loss or overall deafness. Excessive earbud use has harmful effects to the numerous amounts of people that use them on a day to day basis. That being said, there are many options doctors and companies have yet to fully (put to action) discover that can dramatically limit and perhaps can even prevent these harmful effects, such as noise-induced hearing loss, from earbud users. By permanently implanting effective solutions in the lives of earbud users, it can bring the constantly increasing rate of noise-induced hearing loss among them to a halt, resulting in a not only healthier community, but also a more placid life for earbud users. There are many solutions that can be suggested to steady the amount of all forms of hearing loss among society, but the only true way to prevent this ongoing issue lies entirely in the hands of people. It takes their own willpower to determine the direction they

The first study selected within the specified criteria is titled Incidence and Relative Risk of Hearing Disorders in Professional Musicians, written by Schink, Kreutz, Busch, Pigeot, and Ahrens, and published on April 30, 2014 in The Journal of Occupational Environmental Medicine. The researchers observed 2,227 professional musicians over the course of four years to study the affects of their occupational noise exposure on their hearing thresholds. Their goal was to determine if there was a difference in incidence of hearing loss and tinnitus in professional musicians as compared to the general population. Each subject was a customer of one of three German health insurance providers. The experimental group was made up of those who were

Earplugs are placed into the ear canal in order to block the entrance of sound by forming a hermetic seal. Earplugs are better suited for longer use for those individuals who are exposed to noise throughout their workday, and provide a significant amount of attenuation. However, the effectiveness of the earplugs depends on proper insertion, and requires training employees on how to correctly place them in the canal. The level of attenuation can vary depending on how well the earplug is fit, as well as the motivation of the employee to wear them consistently (Berger, 2003).

The promotion process and the accumulation of an audience was also crucial to a successful launch of the EP. Due to the focus upon the previously mentioned processes, the promotional facet was not developed until the latter stages. The original meetings held with the band at the beginning of the compositional process brought forth discussions about the band’s name and thus image we wished to portray. Therefore, the ideas brought forth within this meeting began the point of initiation of this process. The genre of Dark Folk was the overall goal stylistically, thus, many aspects of this process were adjusted to fit this criteria. Various platforms for which the EP should be released were researched in great depth in order to achieve the best

Few people know the range of the different types of tone deafness. However, many people think they have it. Tone deafness is does not refer to a problem with the ears, but to a lack of training. Tone deafness is easy to fix by training the ears and the vocal muscles. Lancet is a music professor in Boston who is tone-deaf (Lancet 2001). Lancet express, "tone deafness is a term that tends to be applied indiscriminately to a constellation of music processing, perceptual, and production deficits" (Lancet 2001). This paper will examine the tone-deafness real-life terms, the past and current research, and current direction which all contribute to its need for exploration.