As an "old" time ci user I can share my experience of identifying sounds as of this morning 20th September 2011!
On putting on my implant I became aware of an odd "gargling" sound that did not sound like water draining away down the faucet! More like a grating sound as if someone was gasping for air!
On further investigation I found that what had made the noise was my flat mates lawn mowers being moved into the hallway and it was the sound of the roller hitting concrete!
This goes to show that even after 12 years of experienced CI use the journey of exploring and identifying sounds continues!!
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Saturday, 25 June 2011
NCIUA meeting
I had a nice day at the event today the first talk was given by Phil Groomfield and Sue (can't remember her surname) from addenbrooks university in Cambridge
They spoke about how sounds get transmitted from the ear to the brain the sound passes through a series of nerves
Everyone suffers from some kind of Tinnitus and in usually generated from inside the body others are more severely affected than others.
Tinnitus is created by the ear/brain when the brain tries to interpret missing or incomplete information
This can occur when people suffer a sudden drop in hearing or who have been deafened in other ways. The brain is missing the auditory connection between the ear and the brain.
Studies have shown that having external aids such as hearing aids or cochlear Implantation tinnitus in the majority of cases disappear or are suppressed by the sound coming into the brain.
This talk concluded with hints and tips on how to keep ones tinitus under control as until more resarch is done there is no known cure for tinitus.
The other main highlight was Geoff Plant's presentation and Zach a mor's performance of DEACON BLUE! This is a musical performance specially created for Cochlear Implant Users.
Set in the 1800's it tells the story of William Brodie through classical music and song (male vocal)
A short subtitled. Animation sequence was shown proceeding each piece of music/vocal to set the scene. Any song lyrics appeared on the screen at the back of the stage making it very easy to follow the songs
How did I find the music/performance as a CI user?
Well overall the performance was good when it boils down to personal musical tastes. The saxophone at times sounded rather harsh compared to the nice melody that the other instruments produced.
At the start of the performance the loud harsh tones of the saxophone drowned out the sounds of the softer sounds coming from the other instruments (note to composer) perhaps bring saxophone part-way in through the piece of music ?)
How did it make me feel? Confused is my initial reaction all my life I never had a liking for classical music and through the implant the music is loud and clear and of fantastic quality and my brain is going "hello hello hello what's all this?
This classical musical experience and the simple pieces that Zach has put together is weird and very clever!
I have a free CD/DVD of the performance and plan to watch again with a patient hearing person to help decipher the complex classical bits that shouldn't appear in this simple composition of music!
The DEACON BLUE experience has opened up a new chapter for me on my musical journey with my CI I hope Zach will come up with the next chapter in this kind of musical theatre!
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They spoke about how sounds get transmitted from the ear to the brain the sound passes through a series of nerves
Everyone suffers from some kind of Tinnitus and in usually generated from inside the body others are more severely affected than others.
Tinnitus is created by the ear/brain when the brain tries to interpret missing or incomplete information
This can occur when people suffer a sudden drop in hearing or who have been deafened in other ways. The brain is missing the auditory connection between the ear and the brain.
Studies have shown that having external aids such as hearing aids or cochlear Implantation tinnitus in the majority of cases disappear or are suppressed by the sound coming into the brain.
This talk concluded with hints and tips on how to keep ones tinitus under control as until more resarch is done there is no known cure for tinitus.
The other main highlight was Geoff Plant's presentation and Zach a mor's performance of DEACON BLUE! This is a musical performance specially created for Cochlear Implant Users.
Set in the 1800's it tells the story of William Brodie through classical music and song (male vocal)
A short subtitled. Animation sequence was shown proceeding each piece of music/vocal to set the scene. Any song lyrics appeared on the screen at the back of the stage making it very easy to follow the songs
How did I find the music/performance as a CI user?
Well overall the performance was good when it boils down to personal musical tastes. The saxophone at times sounded rather harsh compared to the nice melody that the other instruments produced.
At the start of the performance the loud harsh tones of the saxophone drowned out the sounds of the softer sounds coming from the other instruments (note to composer) perhaps bring saxophone part-way in through the piece of music ?)
How did it make me feel? Confused is my initial reaction all my life I never had a liking for classical music and through the implant the music is loud and clear and of fantastic quality and my brain is going "hello hello hello what's all this?
This classical musical experience and the simple pieces that Zach has put together is weird and very clever!
I have a free CD/DVD of the performance and plan to watch again with a patient hearing person to help decipher the complex classical bits that shouldn't appear in this simple composition of music!
The DEACON BLUE experience has opened up a new chapter for me on my musical journey with my CI I hope Zach will come up with the next chapter in this kind of musical theatre!
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Thursday, 16 June 2011
Ben's 8 year ci review
Hi everyone!
As many of you know I attended my 8 year ci review this afternoon. This consisted of three parts.
Part 1 A mapping session with my auidologist. I had some minor tweaks done to my first map to level out the loudness and comfort levels I have kept my IDR on 75 with clear voice on high.
My second map I have been finding that with the current settings it was just too noisy. This was supposed to be a music map which did not live up to much so I have got a noise map created as I have a hard time in noisy surroundings. The IDR is reduced to 65 with clearvoice on meduim (I think) I will report back on how I get on with this (family members will see this live in action on Friday night!)
My 3rd map is 50/50 with telecoil and has been left unchanged.
Part two of the visit was the well known sentances test in quiet and in noise the scores below are in percentage out of 100 what I heard correctly
Todays scores as of 16th June 2011
Harmony processor
Sentences in quiet 100 percent
Sentances in noise 97 percent
Scores as of 10 may 2007
Auria processor
Sentances in quiet 98 percent
Sentances in noise 91 percent
The harmony performs better in noise! Well I appear to be doing so anyway!
As I do so well with speech comphrension there was a small improvement on this front
The last and final part was a simple hearing test in which I heard all the usual frequency ranges a good ci user hears
This info can also be viewed on my blog at www.harmonisedhearing.blogspot.com
Cheers
As many of you know I attended my 8 year ci review this afternoon. This consisted of three parts.
Part 1 A mapping session with my auidologist. I had some minor tweaks done to my first map to level out the loudness and comfort levels I have kept my IDR on 75 with clear voice on high.
My second map I have been finding that with the current settings it was just too noisy. This was supposed to be a music map which did not live up to much so I have got a noise map created as I have a hard time in noisy surroundings. The IDR is reduced to 65 with clearvoice on meduim (I think) I will report back on how I get on with this (family members will see this live in action on Friday night!)
My 3rd map is 50/50 with telecoil and has been left unchanged.
Part two of the visit was the well known sentances test in quiet and in noise the scores below are in percentage out of 100 what I heard correctly
Todays scores as of 16th June 2011
Harmony processor
Sentences in quiet 100 percent
Sentances in noise 97 percent
Scores as of 10 may 2007
Auria processor
Sentances in quiet 98 percent
Sentances in noise 91 percent
The harmony performs better in noise! Well I appear to be doing so anyway!
As I do so well with speech comphrension there was a small improvement on this front
The last and final part was a simple hearing test in which I heard all the usual frequency ranges a good ci user hears
This info can also be viewed on my blog at www.harmonisedhearing.blogspot.com
Cheers
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