By Sara on December 1, 2011
I have a lot of work to do this time of year, but wanted to post my first thoughts on this TED video. First – no captions yet! gah! I can understand the main speaker, but the video clips aren’t clear enough to hear. Second – I’m entirely happy with my two CIs. It’s been almost 2 years since the second [...]
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By Sara on September 6, 2010
I’ve been having fun playing with a site called Tagxedo (that’s like Tuxedo but with Tag). It’s similar to Wordle but has more features, like you can choose the shape you want your word cloud to appear in. This one is a list of all the songs that the saxophone ensemble I play with has performed. [...]
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By Sara on March 2, 2010
I haven’t gotten to watch this video with sound yet, but I can imagine what it sounds like. There are captions of a sort that explain what’s going on. It’s very similar to how our brain learns to hear cochlear implant stimulus as speech… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
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By Sara on February 1, 2010
Sometimes I forget that the things I post to the CI mailing lists I’m on might be good to put here too: The transcript of this NPR show looks interesting. I haven’t gotten to listen to this yet (forgot to bring headphones to work, forgot to bring spare battery for CI #1 too! 3 weeks away [...]
Posted in Hearing, Music
| Tagged cochlear, cochlear implant, Music, NPR, simulation
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By Sara on October 2, 2009
First things first. Music with my cochlear implant is way way beyond my expectations. But I had pretty low expectations. Seriously, music sounds great now (5 months from activation). The CI adds a whole new layer of sounds that I couldn’t hear before. It helps bring out the lyrics. It adds the higher frequency percussion, cymbals, [...]
Posted in Activities, Hearing, Music
| Tagged bimodal, cochlear implant, PE Exam, saxophone
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By Sara on September 11, 2009
Let’s see how I do with my last post’s list. I’m going to take CI/hearing topics today. 1. 4 months with CI That’s right. I was activated way back on May 4th. I’ve been in for just 3 mappings since then at 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months (though all were a bit late). My audiogram has [...]
Posted in Hearing, Music, Work
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By Sara on September 2, 2009
I want to write! But there are so many things that I want to write about that I draw a blank when I open this window to start. Maybe a list will help… 4 months with CI CI #2? 2 CIs versus 1 CI and 1 HA versus bilateral EAS Music lately (wish I’d remembered to bring headphones [...]
Posted in About Me, Activities, Hearing, Music, Work
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By Sara on July 17, 2009
I used to joke that I did great in band, my hearing loss didn’t prevent me from playing, I could hear everyone… except the piccoolos. And people would laugh and say that I wasn’t missing anything, or even that I was lucky to not hear them. When did I first realize I was hearing them with [...]
Posted in Hearing, Music
| Tagged piccolos, stars and stripes forever
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By Sara on July 1, 2009
I play saxophone in the Charlottesville Municipal Band, specifically tenor saxophone. I found the band after moving to Charlottesville in 2006. I waited until January of 2007 to join though as I didn’t get settled in at my job until late October and it’s always easier to join a group right after a concert. So [...]
Posted in Music
| Tagged band, concerts, july 4th, monticello, Music
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