So...I was daydreaming about...

So, I was thinking about music lately. More specifically, what would I do if I was deaf and unable to hear or appreciate music...

Say wot?

    I've been thinking about this for quite some time now and honestly, I realized how much of a gift hearing is. I mean, music to me is freedom, something that transcends our lives, above our petty squabbles. When i look around at the world, it always surprises me how such imperfect beings like ourselves could possible create something as close to perfection as music...*glazed eyes*... 

Well, enough rambling.

Out of curiosity, I then decided to interview a friend of mine, Nathan Byrne who is currently in his final year of a Bachelor of Music at Melbourne University and is an accomplished pianist and conductor, trying to get a scope on how much does music really matter to someone in the music scene:


Me: What does music mean to you?


N: Ah, that's a big one... I guess music means many things to me; it means sharing, communication, I guess bringing people together, for me primarily, to a common love. 


Me: If one day if you were diagnosed with noise induced hearing loss how would it affect your life and what would you do instead of music?


N: I guess...I don't actually know...The way I am, I built my life around music in such a way that I think if I was to lose the ability to hear, I would feel like I had lost one of my limbs I guess..
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    Seeing how much music means so much to myself as well as many of you guys out there, i decided to hold my very own and this site's first, awareness week. 

   More specifically, an awareness week on the impact of noise-induced acquired  hearing loss on musicians and ways we can prevent and reduce the chances of such a debilitating impairment. In this week, I'll see what kind of information I can dig up about how sound works, mechanisms of noise induced hearing loss, and as well as ways to minimize and reduce the damage to our ears.
       

Our favorite deaf musician

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