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Feb 1, 2018 - 2:52 AM
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Thor
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Yes.
Back in 2011 or so, I was diagnosed with chronic tinnitus in my left ear. Every waking hour, the sound was there. Like when you turned on one of those old fat tube TVs, that's the sound. Just multiplied by 10. As the years went by, I managed to overcome the psychological stress to a reasonable extent.
But then in October last year, the sound suddenly DOUBLED, and it's now at a completely intolerable level that I can no longer deal with.
Suffice to say, all of this has had a huge consequence for how I listen to music. I'm no longer drawn to big, orchestral action scores, but prefer the calm and textural. Or the electronic. I can no longer listen to music intently alone, but have to have it on in the background while I do other things (like sitting on a PC) -- as I multitask, I fool the brain (the creator of the sound) to divert less attention to it.
But beyond this very biological event, I would have to say that there's a personal taste evolution going on too, that also has had some bearing on how and what I listen to. I did a thread on this awhile back, but can't for the sake of me remember what I called it.
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Feb 1, 2018 - 2:53 AM
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MusicMad
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I can't recall anything quite so fundamental as your experience ... perhaps the closest being: as a teenager, I worked in a branch of W.H.Smith during 1974-6 ... in the popular vinyl/tape music department during the last year ... and the constant bombardment of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (released Autumn 75) almost drove me nutty ... certainly I can't hear more than a few seconds now without squirming. Conversely, Abba's Fernando - released a few months later - was such a welcome sound that, even to this day, I still like it.
Actual improvement to listening enjoyment is far more straightforward: better quality hi-fi. Simple, easy ... but not inexpensive. Coincidentally, we've just listened to Ennio Morricone's adaption of his score to Un tranquillo posto di campagna (A Quiet Place in the Country) (1968), a 34+ minute suite of melody and crazy sounds. In the old days on my everyday CD player set-up it was just noise ... now it sounds like a group of guys having a ball ... it's still bonkers but at least it sounds like musical instruments (mostly, at any rate).
And, if not exactly a recommendation, at least a friend's enthusiasm. I hadn't written Shostakovich off, more I simply didn't own that much and rarely played what I did own. But said enthusiasm pushed me towards listening more and now both my wife and I rate a lot of his works very highly, to the extent of attending live concerts.
Mitch
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Yes.
Back in 2011 or so, I was diagnosed with chronic tinnitus in my left ear. Every waking hour, the sound was there. Like when you turned on one of those old fat tube TVs, that's the sound. Just multiplied by 10. As the years went by, I managed to overcome the psychological stress to a reasonable extent.
But then in October last year, the sound suddenly DOUBLED, and it's now at a completely intolerable level that I can no longer deal with.
Suffice to say, all of this has had a huge consequence for how I listen to music. I'm no longer drawn to big, orchestral action scores, but prefer the calm and textural. Or the electronic. I can no longer listen to music intently alone, but have to have it on in the background while I do other things (like sitting on a PC) -- as I multitask, I fool the brain (the creator of the sound) to divide less attention to it.
But beyond this very biological event, I would have to say that there's a personal taste evolution going on too, that also has has some bearing on how and what I listen to. I did a thread on this awhile back, but can't for the sake of me remember what I called it.
I also suffer from motherf***ing tinnitus. I remember the thread on it, I think you started it Thor...? Do remember the title of that thread? I haven't done the simple search using the word tinnitus, that might work. Mobile right now.
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Feb 1, 2018 - 3:44 AM
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jenkwombat
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If this is now down to illness<->music, this obviously happens in other areas too. I have a friend who ate noodles while he was sick, then became more sick and now can't eat noodles anymore. It's a fairly common, associative, psychosomatic phenomenon.
The ol' Ludwig van/CLOCKWORK ORANGE test, innit?
Yeah, for me it's only a few artists, thank goodness. I don't know what I would think of them if my parents had been a little more considerate and cracked a window by a few inches. 
Regarding tinnitus: I have it as well, but I don't know how bad my case is, as I've never experienced anyone else's tinnitus. Plus, I've had it so long, and it's been pretty consistent in intensity, that I have learned to handle it.
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Cool topic! I've spent a great portion of my life studying music, and I noticed over the years that as I learned more about music (including composition, orchestration, arranging, etc.) along with intent appreciation, I got way more out of music as a whole. One can delight or be stricken by things in certain compositions that might fly over the head or even irritate the casual listener (not that there's anything wrong with casual listening, far from it).
But that's just me, music is of course there for everybody to enjoy for whatever reasons suit them.
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Wax build up. I'm not kidding.'
LOL! +1000
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No kidding. 
And I was being serious. 