[AUDITORY] How is the signal of a cochlear implant? [Sound art Project in honor to my deaf sister] (=?UTF-8?Q?Hugo_Sol=c3=ads?= )

Subject: [AUDITORY] How is the signal of a cochlear implant? [Sound art Project in honor to my deaf sister]
From:    =?UTF-8?Q?Hugo_Sol=c3=ads?=  <hugosoli@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Sun, 7 Mar 2021 06:55:01 -0600

Hi everybody,

My names is Hugo and I am a sound artist with some background in=20
computer science. I have a sister that was born fully deaf and she got a=20
cochlear implant when she was 40 years old. She is now 48. The cochlear=20
changed too little in my sister's live and she doesn't describe music as=20
a pleasant experience.

I want to create a piece of art where hearing people could hear the real=20
signal that the cochlear implant sends to the brain. I know that the=20
signal is processed and that pulses are generated on each one of the=20
electrodes. However I do not nothing about the details of the=20
transformation.

I am capable of write code in Python (ussing the Essentia Library=20
(https://essentia.upf.edu/) in order the emulate the transformation to a=20
signal but I don=C2=B4t know what is the typical process. I could also wr=
ite=20
the code in SuperCollider (https://supercollider.github.io/) but=20
although it has tons of unit generators it does not have as many=20
extractors of audio descriptors and common phsyacoustic process as Python.

I am not an audiologist and I have a lack of the signal processing=20
transformation that happens in a cochlear implant. I do know a lot about=20
digital signal processing though.

So I need some basics:

1. Code or libraries in any programming code but ideally in Python that=20
does the emulation. I could write the process but I imagine that many=20
people has already done this and that there is opensource code already=20
written.

2. Basic reference about the process that happens in the cochlear device=20
that could help me to either write the code or tuning the opensource=20
code in order to make my piece. The work will be shown in a exhibition=20
and I am running out of time. So any help would be more than appreciate i=
t.

I will be forever thankfull with your support.

Warm regards

Hugo Sol=C3=ADs