Hear Here! focuses on hearing impairment

4 December 2008

In November, Hear Here! focused on hearing impairment and silence and how they effect and influence listening. Go to the Hear Here! website (www.hearhere.org.uk) for:

• The Scientist and The Musician
  In this special podcast Prof. David McAlpine, Director of UCL Ear Institute, and Dame Evelyn Glennie, international percussionist and Deafness Research UK Vice President, talk to Tom Hutchinson about what listening means to them
• "The times they are a changing"
  Vivienne Michael, Chief Executive of Deafness Research UK, looks at the current state of research into deafness.
• Let's Hear It For Silence
  Paradoxical as it may seem, without an appreciation of silence there can be no proper appreciation of music. Prof. Stuart Sim advocates the importance of silence.
• Tinnitus: a whistling and distorted nightmare
  Richard Morrison, chief music critic of The Times, experiences when London sounded as if it was under water.
• Music and the Deaf
  How many of you have ever actually wondered about what music is, what it consists of, why it affects you as it does, and how you would describe it to someone who cannot hear it?
• What is Hyperacusis?
  Read more about this elusive phenomenon.

Hear Here! – the UK’s first classical music project dedicated to listening is presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society and Classic FM and supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Deafness Research UK is one of many prestigious research partners involved with this scheme.

How and why do we listen? What does it mean to us socially, emotionally and in other ways? And what does it mean if we lose the ability to listen? This exciting and imaginative project explores all these questions and more.