Therapy where tinnitus frequences are filtered out can potentially mitigate tinnitus. Read this brief article from Scientific American:
Observations: Music to the (ringing) ears: New therapy targets tinnitus.
I am posting various links here to whatever I have enjoyed myself. Most recent links are at the top.
Week of Nov 30
Gnomehammer: “Sound of Snow” (aka Snow Drums) | Tonehammer http://bit.ly/8A3Dyc
100 Great Web Sites for Musicians | Producing Beats http://bit.ly/78KoiW
mnb ensembles http://bit.ly/5LjV13
Handy EQ Reference http://bit.ly/5Z9iSg
ACMastering’s Adrian Carr http://bit.ly/4HII2e
Free music software round-up: Week 34 | Musicradar.com http://bit.ly/80adqb
Archived links: http://jakitomusic.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/68/
A study by cognitive psychologist Jackie Andrade at the University of Plymouth, UK, showed that people remembered details of a dull monologue better if they doodled throughout the monologue. “It’s not so much that doodling is good for your concentration, but that daydreaming is bad. If you are thinking about where you are going to go on holiday, that is probably going to be more cognitively demanding than a doodle”, Andrade said. You can read more about Dr. Jackie Andrade’s study in this Feb 28 article from The Guardian. It has always puzzled me why even very discrete and neutrally sounding music can improve the overall impression of e.g. a product presentation video. Dr. Andrade’s findings may help us understading this better: a part of your mind is occupied with the music bed under the video you are seeing. It kind of tethers your mind to the presentation in a gentle way or, as Paul McCartney sang: “it stops my mind from wandering”. Doodling, listening to music or fixing a hole in the roof seem to have similar effects on your mind.
