Ongoing History Daily: Watch your ears
There are two ways you could be listening to what I’m saying right now. You could be listening to me on the radio–or you could be listening to the podcast. If this is
Read MoreThere are two ways you could be listening to what I’m saying right now. You could be listening to me on the radio–or you could be listening to the podcast. If this is
Read MoreYou’re back at home after attending an amazing live gig. You try to sleep but you can’t. The music was so loud you have this weird ringing thing mixed with a strange underwater
Read MoreBack on the weekend, I published a column on GlobalMusic.ca about what music consumption technology might come after streaming., I wish I’d seen this: devices that allow you to hear through your skin.
Read MoreWhich kind of musician suffers most from hearing damage? The metal guys? Industrial groups? Grunge bands? Would you believe CLASSICAL musicians? It’s true. Rock music has been long demonized as the music that
Read MoreA couple of years ago, Apple announced a new initiative called Research, an app that collected data about health collected from Apple Watch and iPhones. It focused on four things: heart health, women’s
Read MoreWhat if your whole life was music and you suddenly went deaf? How would you deal with it? That’s the premise of Sound of Metal, which follows an alt-rock drummer named Ruben Stone
Read MoreAs much as I love loud music, I hate that feeling the next day where your hearing is dulled and it feels like you’re listening to everything underwater. Do that often enough and
Read MoreBefore the Sony Walkman came along in 1979, headphone listening was limited to when you could be wired to your stereo. Today, though, people wear their ‘phones and ‘buds for hours and hours
Read MoreIf you don’t think you need to protect your ears from overly loud music at concerts or through headphones, give some thought to what happened to George Martin. Sir George will forever be
Read MoreSome people are just better at hearing conversations no matter how noisy the party might be. But why? It could because they’ve got some kind of musical training. This is from Medical Express:
Read MoreCochlear implants can allow deaf people to hear, but they can never (at least not yet) replicate what a person with full hearing experiences. Here’s what someone with a cochlear implant hears.
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