You’ve probably chosen music yourself to evoke a particular reaction in your brain, just like when gym-goers put on a motivational playlist full of energy to get them through a workout. All of this is, of course, backed by research that shows that music can affect our emotions in different ways. Happy, upbeat music causes our brains to produce chemicals like dopamine and serotonin, which evokes feelings of joy, whereas calming music relaxes the mind and the body.
The Hearing Aids for Music project explored how hearing impairments and the use of hearing aid technology affects people’s music experiences through a series of clinic surveys, an interview study and a national online survey. Caps exams a number of candidate scores from a given composer and carefully considers which scores should be classified as a “salvo scores”. Among the film composers that Caps investigates in this way are Alexandre Desplat, Michael … Read More