Music and Deafness
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A UK-based tweet feed sharing ideas, topics, discussions, projects, events, performances relating to the experience of music with a hearing impairment
Leeds, Sheffield, UK
Joined March 2012
Sending out free resources on a weekly basis! There's a patient leaflet, two practitioner leaflets and resource cards (or a pack which contains all items) to help improve music listening with hearing aids. Contact musicandhearingaids@leeds.ac.uk if you would like any in the post!
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Wonderful news that Leverhulme Turst are funding a centre for Aural Diversity which will provide funding for 25 PhD studentships. Congratulations @BillJDavies, @pataphonic, and the @Aural_Diversity community.
Excited to lead this major new research programme in aural diversity with @pataphonic. We'll be advertising fully-funded PhD places for Oct 2024 soon @SalfordAcoustic
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A story for anyone wondering whether they should get hearing aids if they are experiencing difficulty communicating with loved ones:
hearingreview.com
After hearing aids improve their lives, a couple grieves for the time they lost to poor communication in their marriage.
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We're raising awareness of the 1 in 7 adults who are affected by tinnitus. Our free tinnitus guide contains information on ways to manage tinnitus, from professional support to self-help options. Download your guide today: https://t.co/ryGzxOtctd
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Important article here about the need for musicians to look after their hearing health, and the support mechanisms that are in place to help them to do so. @WeAreTheMU @HelpMusicians @ukbapam
Hearing health is probably the most precious tool musicians have, but many of us are taking it for granted. Find out more about hearing loss and how to protect your hearing in our long read: https://t.co/XDg1uFWAQT
#WorldHearingDay
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Our @LeedsUniMusic colleague Professor Alinka Greasley is part of a research group investigating the interface between music and hearing loss. The team have secured £1.6m of @EPSRC funding for the crucial project which builds on @musicndeafness. Read more:
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Some of my colleagues are conducting a short survey on musicians' perceptions of live music events. Please do complete if you have time! Any questions get in touch with @Karenburland. @LeedsUniMusic, @LeedsUniAHC
We’re exploring musicians’ perceptions of live music events and we’d love to hear from you, whatever the music or performance context! Please share with your networks!! @LeedsUniAHC @MusicPsychLeeds @LeedsUniMusic
https://t.co/HznBqmMDGn
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Want to play games to help make mixed reality more inclusive and accessible? A new study is looking for hard of hearing and partially sighted volunteers to become a user tester. Info on blog https://t.co/48DGtD7BP7, Contact: @thepengineer, @AudioLabYork, @XR_Stories.
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The Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss invites musicians with hearing loss to online event 16/17 July which focuses on challenges of making aural music with hearing devices such as hearing aids or cochlear implants. Details/registration here:
musicianswithhearingloss.org
The theme of our virtual conference on July 16-17 2022 is "Variations on a Theme". Our conference has three tracks: Conservation, Transformation and Recognition. Each presentation will be followed by...
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Call for participants! @AngelikiMourge1 looking for ppl aged 18-70 with mild hearing loss to take part in study evaluating the performance of listeners with real and simulated hearing loss on auditory tasks and speech recognition. Travel to E1 4NS. Contact a.mourgela@qmul.ac.uk
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A postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available at the UCL Ear Institute to work on an MRC project entitled “Characterizing the effects of hearing loss and hearing aids on the neural code for music”. Please pass on to anyone who might be interested!
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Looking forward to giving a talk at this event at the University of Oldenburg in October.
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We're looking for a post-doc to work on our project on hearing aids and music. We'll be running challenges to build a community to improve music for those with hearing loss. This position needs someone with good programming skills. https://t.co/STKir3GZRB
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Call for participants! Do you have hearing loss? Do you struggle to hear out instruments when listening to music? Take part in a paid listening experiment which tests your ability to hear out musical instruments from a musical mixture. Info:
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Do you have hearing loss? Do you struggle to hear out instruments when listening to music? Take part in a paid listening experiment which tests your ability to hear out musical instruments from a musical mixture. https://t.co/lExGNeIYvu
@KaiSiedenburg, #musicscience
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Dr Greasley awarded EPSRC funding to develop novel signal processing strategies for improving music listening for people with hearing loss. https://t.co/N2LcdujOtZ
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Huge thanks to all our speakers yesterday! @Aural_Diversity, @coreen_anne, @EdGarland9, Matthew Spring, Ricardo Huisman, Tanvi Solanki
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The programme for Workshop 2 of the @Aural_Diversity network is now available: https://t.co/1eVy4gvkY9 If you are interested in moving on from vocabulary of hearing disability/dysfunction/handicap to that of hearing differently, please join us (public and professionals welcome).
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