“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

29 July 2011

Music Through Deaf Ears

I just bought a guitar online along with a copy of Guitars for Dummies. It should be arriving anywhere from Tuesday to Friday. I'm actually excited for it, to feel the music that I make in my hands.  I used to take piano lessons for seven years when I was younger. The wooden piano with yellowed keys sits, forgotten as proof of my lack of interest. I couldn't understand or hear the music correctly.

I've only recently experienced music differently, in the Deaf way. It pounds through the air, leaving your bones trembling. You can really feel it, move to it. That's how I now 'listen' to music, through sensations more than sound. What is music for you? How do you 'listen' to it? Do you feel that music a part of the Deaf community?

2 observations:

  1. I still like listening to music in loud blast in my unimplanted ear. I like the rhythms and beats, but some hearing people get really emotional over music or whatever it is. I don't. The only time music make me cry if I knew the lyrics and I can relate to the lyrics or watched a sad part of a movie along with the lyrics."fly away" is one of movie. An old friend who watched it with me didn't like the song "10,000 miles" and the singer's voice. But watching that movie, and reading, and listening to the lyric made me cried. I fell in love with the song.That was back in my hearing aids days too. Still like the song :)

    Back in my younger days as hearing aids user (profoundly deaf, btw), I loved pounding on the piano. I never took lessons but I would spend hours and hours pounding the keyboards or piano at my grandma's. And did this all my life.I never could play by ears,though. when I was implanted with my CI at the age 24, about 7 or 8 years ago, I lost all interest in musics. I would only listen to them when everyone is talking about it and the curiosity got to me :) Some of them I do like, but most is like "eh" I don't get the music worm (you know, music in your head that won't go away type of thing)anymore either since my implant. They says they are working to improve music for CI. maybe they will, or maybe natural sounds is the best way to listen to music.

    oh vibration is great. I listened to rap without my implant and I enjoyed it.

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  2. I tried to take on the flute recently for me, but cannot after days trying blow a note. So I'm hoping to sell or to swap for a electric keyboard and stick with what I know. :)

    I like to listen to most music, but preferably something with a beat, I find more enjoyable.

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