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This is inspired in part by another post about migrain sufferers and their symptoms...I have tinnitus, ringing in my ears. It is never quiet, and often a real bother. I have had a carreer performing in symphony orchestras for over twenty years, playing music by the world'sgreat composers, some of whom
had this syndrom as well. (Beethoven!) I have never played a work that illustrated what I hear in my head. It would not be just a monotonous droning of sounds, but more like waterfalls, rain, flutes trying to tune, voices speaking in strange languages, shifting like sand dunes. I hear it as a kind of mixed blessing, like the devil's way of luring you into selling your soul. It would be beautiful at first, then develop into a nightmare of cacophony. The audience would have to leave while the music was still playing, since it never stops...I would hope it would serve as a deterrent to stop people from exposing themselves to volume levels that are not healthy. Please, this is not a rant, but a serious idea.
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I cannot describe my tinnitus other than a buzz, I sympathise / empathise. |
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My tinnitus is a high pitched ringing sound. It doesn't vary in pitch within the day, although over the ten years or so that I've had it, it's gradually got lower in pitch. I suspect that ten years of playing the clarinet in orchestras and bands where I sat in front of the brass section didn't help. I don't know how I could have avoided this noise and still played - maybe earplugs for the loud movements? |
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<old before my time> I'm always appalled at how loud some public places are - I hate going to bars with wooden floors because the background noise is too loud and I can't hear the conversation. The worst is cinemas where the surround sound hurts my eardrums. </obmt> |
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Ah, and the voices in my head can accompany! |
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My contribution would be a rather monotonous, buzzy high pitch, much like the sound of a square wave. Fortunately, I can block it out when I concentrate so my contribution will be practically nil. |
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I will contribute a whistle at around 300 kHz. I don't think any instrument can play that. Maybe an electric drill with a dull bit, trying to go through glass? |
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The real issue is hearing my constant whistle combined with earworms. My current earworm is: |
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...There was green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees,
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born... |
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It would still be one heck of a concert! Tickets? Oh, I'll pass, thank-you. |
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"300 kHz"? Good news! Your tinnitus is curable. Someone has put a radio transmitter in your head. :) |
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I've got one of those, too. I'll bet if I put some illustrative text to the music it would help a lot of people understand the tinnitus sufferer's situation. I had to leave the party last night because of the noise... But here in the bakery I am in the midst of the party and enjoying the heck out of it! |
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[half] - 300kHz doesn't necessarily mean the waves are electromagnetic. Typical humans (at least, Russian humans) can detect 200kHz sound waves, if they're applied to the skull. |
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janeymack, that's mad. i've just come up with a similar idea mysslf while doing research for an art show.
except my idea was a party of "tinny" people who get together and just by standing around create a soundscape of tinnitus sounds. the ones with objective tinnitus could let the rest of us have a listen! great fun! To string stretchers symphony i could add a a nice high and low tone. Sure arn't we musicians dead lucky to have our very own interior sound? |
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Wouldn't this, in turn, cause tinnitus in the performers?
Some solution. What you ought to do is perform this
quietly someplace where you haven't been asked to do so,
ie at a restaurant, in the park, any public place. Bring a
humming machine and produce an obnoxious hum. Only
transgressive art can express the annoyance of tinnitus. |
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i wonder if it's possible to use tinnitis as a reference note - to tune instruments etc |
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