December 9, 2015

Overcoming Hearing Loss to Make Music Again

On Oct. 25, 2015, I did something I hadn’t done for more than 34 years. I performed my music in front of a live audience. I had a successful music career […]
May 22, 2015

Let it Be: A Beatlemaniac’s Beacon Through Hearing Loss

This May marks 45 years since Let it Be, the Beatles’ last album, was released. My parents, who were 11 and 21 at the time, remember the album as the […]
March 5, 2015

Good News About the Phonak Audeo V for This Singer  

I am having an exceptional experience with a new Phonak Audeo V hearing aid which I received on January 23, 2015. It’s one thing hearing sounds more clearly than I […]
December 8, 2014

As One Song Ends, Another Finds Its Voice

In late summer of 2010, my wife was dying. Managing the late stages of a rare and fatal cancer was challenging enough, but our communication was deteriorating as well. Her […]
September 26, 2014

Music Appreciation – Caveats and Limitations

As we all know, music holds a special meaning and connection for each and every individual who listens to it. We all have our own personal preferences to how we […]
September 13, 2014

Craving Music

When my hearing loss was diagnosed, after the initial shock, I adopted my hearing aids pretty fast. You must have gone through the same kind of mental process: “Wow I’m […]
June 18, 2014

Punk Rock Proof — Or How Hearing Aids Changed my Taste in Music

I once had hearing aids that were punk rock proof. I was 17. For me, they were some of the best devices I have ever worn, mainly because they were […]
February 19, 2014

Music: Boon or Bane?

Boon Ask Austin Chapman, the young man with hearing loss whose new digital hearing aids recently allowed him to hear music as more than noise for the first time. He’ll […]
September 24, 2013

A Musical Odyssey.

New technology gives a filmmaker with severe-to-profound hearing loss access to music, and changes his life.