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We are excited to announce the HearMus seminar series, which will commence in October and will be run as an online seminar. The HearMus seminar series provides a monthly forum for the discussion of a broad array of topics around music and hearing health. The series aims to yield
a state of the art of research on music perception and hearing impairment, hearing aids and music, and individual differences in music perception and production. Besides presentations from experts in academia and industry, the seminar series seeks to foster
lively discussions and exchange of ideas, with the joint goal of sustaining and enhancing access to music for people with diverse hearing needs. Seminar leaders: Prof. Alinka Greasley, Prof. Kai Siedenburg OCTOBER SEMINAR –
Oct 21, 2024, 15:00-17:00 CEST The first seminar will include two talks on music and hearing aids, with Q&A. There will be opportunity for audience members to introduce themselves and
their interest and expertise in the topic area. Hearing Aids for Music (HAfM) project update Prof. Alinka Greasley (University of Leeds) Listening to and performing music with hearing aids can be challenging. Whilst hearing aids increase audibility and help with hearing out musical elements,
users often experience poor sound quality, distortion and difficulties with dynamics, particularly in live music contexts. The Hearing Aids for Music project mapped the prevalence of problems experienced by hearing aid users and identified strategies to help
improve access to and enjoyment of music. This talk will summarise the project findings and their implications for key stakeholders (e.g. musicians, audiologists, manufacturers), and describe how results are informing current projects (e.g. Cadenza, Aural
Diversity) and ongoing impact & PPIE work. Hearing aid evaluation for music: Accounting for acoustical variability of music stimuli Christophe Lesimple (Sonova) Music is an important signal class for hearing aids, and musical genre is often used as a descriptor for stimulus selection. However, little research has
systematically investigated the acoustical properties of musical genres with respect to hearing aid amplification. Two comprehensive music databases were acoustically analyzed where considerable overlap in acoustic descriptor space between genres emerged.
Simulating hearing aid processing on these samples has shown that effects of amplification regarding dynamic range compression and spectral weighting differed across musical genres, underlining the critical role of systematic stimulus selection for research
on music and hearing aids. Practical application, like how to include samples as random effect in listening experiment for the statistical analysis, will be presented and discussed. OCTOBER Topic: HearMus Seminar 1 (21.10.24) Time: Oct 21, 2024, 15:00-17:00 CEST Join Zoom Meeting https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/84790601703 Meeting ID: 847 9060 1703 We look forward to seeing some of you there! Prof. Alinka Greasley Professor of Music Psychology Director of Research and Innovation
School of Music | University of Leeds | Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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Phone: + 44 113 343 4560 |