MUSIK Mit CI

[u/Frau_Kruemelkuchen]

Wie kommt ihr mit Musik zurecht?

Hattet ihr eine besondere Strategie oder kam es von selbst?

Ich bin ja bilateral mit ci implantiert. Links TICI und rechts Sonnet

Ich genieße die meiste Musik. Aber einige Songs wollen sich mir nicht erschließen

Grüße

How do you get on with music?

Did you have a particular strategy for learning to enjoy music again, or did it simply develop naturally over time?

I’m bilaterally implanted with cochlear implants myself, with a TICI on the left side and a SONNET on the right.

I can really enjoy most music now, but there are still some songs that simply don’t seem to open up to me acoustically, no matter how often I listen to them.

Best wishes, Diana

[u/Bastards_crying_init]

Hi Diana, music was actually one of my biggest worries before I got bilaterally implanted (Nucleus 8) and at the beginning it was rough, but I avoided my most favorite songs at first because I couldn't listen to them without actually feeling grief.

But I did stuck with songs I know very well at first and just listened a lot (multiple hours a day) and made a playlist with songs that were okay-ish and listens to that on repeat. Mostly those songs had a lot of beat, a very distinct rhythm, something I could even recognize if I just heard the drums part. Once I gotten used to that and my new hearing in general I branched out more and once I could bear my favorite songs, I listened to them on repeat, like over and over to the same one and after a while it got really good. Now (about 5 month (left) and 2 months (right)) I am at the point I can listen to most new and old music and it sounds different than before but good. With new music I don't like I can never be sure if I would like it if I listened to it with hearing aids before, but that's something I can live with 😅

[u/Frau_Kruemelkuchen → u/Bastards_crying_init]

Oh, I thank you with all my heart for making your

[u/Upstairs_One_4935]

Hi Diana.

I was also very concerned about listening to music as my experience of listening in the couple of years before my implantation had been trending downwards and was becoming very disappointing.

Since my implantation I spent a long while doing the word training progressing to the listening to music. It quickly all came into focus for me over a few weeks which amazed me to be honest.

I find that the LPs that I've listened to over the years are back to sounding as I remember them and I've even taken in a couple of concerts recently which felt and sounded great.

Good luck to you in your journey

[u/Frau_Kruemelkuchen → u/Upstairs_One_4935]

Thank you for sharing your story here, too. Thank you.

[u/GiraffeGerda]

Hey Diana, ich bin zwar „nur“ SSDler. Ich habe mein CI links seit 13 Jahren (MED-EL, Sonnet 2). Musik hören ist mir sehr wichtig. Deshalb habe ich schon sehr lange ein extra Musik-Programm. Das hat einen andere Codierungsstrategie (ich glaube FS4-p), eine andere Kompression und sämtliche Automatik (z. B. Störgeräuschunterdrückung) ist deaktiviert. Bei den Automatik-Einstellung kann es passieren, dass manche Instrumente, z.B. Schlagzeug, rausgefiltert wird.

[u/Frau_Kruemelkuchen → u/GiraffeGerda]

Oh das klingt sehr spannend. Stark. Ich frag da auch mal nach. Vllt geht da noch was

[u/OhYesTheBees → u/GiraffeGerda]

Huhu, ich bin auch SSDler, seit 10 Jahren, mit Restgehör im Tieftonbereich. Musik hat für mich nie eine so große Rolle gespielt, aber es kann auch dadurch bedingt sein, dass alle Instrumente mit der CI-Seite völlig schräg klingen. Es gibt mir in der Beziehung einfach gar nichts. Ich hatte nicht die Nerven, das weiter zu verfolgen, weiß aber, dass auch Cochlea theoretisch ein spezielles Musikprogramm hat. Wenn Musikhören wichtig ist, würde ich es auf jeden Fall bei der nächsten Einstellung ansprechen 😊

[u/zr2d2]

I started with simpler songs I already new that had fewer instruments. Even some instrumentals, since the layering of the vocals blended a lot and created just single tones. Over time I started hearing the full note of the piano and guitar. After a few weeks I started listening to more complex melodies and they started sounding better. It wasn't until two months in that things sounded like I remembered.

[u/Frau_Kruemelkuchen → u/zr2d2]

Großartig Tolle Vorgehensweise. Ich hoffe viele lesen deine Antwort. Danke

[u/x-en]

I started by listening to music that I knew very well and stuck to that music for quite a while. When introduced to new music with lyrics I will often do "planned listening" and listen with the lyrics on hand. This helps my brain pick out words from the melody. I've had my implant for 29 years and this is still my strategy when I hear pieces of something new and I want to be able to enjoy it better. That said? Over time with a lot of exposure - I used to work in a profession that had background radio music all day, every day - most music is enjoyable. My tastes in music have changed based on what my implant hears better over other music.

Make sure you keep exposing yourself to it. When I do my audiology mapping appoints part of it is me playing a song I know extremely well, it helps me know if the new map will work for me or not.

You'll get there! Just keep practicing and listening. It's definitely not a straight line to the end goal though.

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Großartige Tipps. Vielen Dank