Can You Hear Me Now?

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 Suggested to listen with headphones. 



Sounds of increasing frequency to test the listener's ability to hear particular pitches. Ranging from 20 Hertz to 16000 Hertz. The higher the pitch, the less likely it is for people to hear it. 



Something interesting about hearing, and all of the senses in general, is how our choices can impact how we experience them. Unpacking this more, the choices we make can alter how we hear and that's something that I think is incredibly interesting. Being in a concert for extended periods of time can severely damage your hearing yet we do it anyway. It's interesting how our body cannot communicate  the distress we put in under. 

Conceptually it's interesting. When we think of putting our bodies at risk for a thrill you think of skydiving or looking at the sun: an external concern is what we think about. When we think of risk and danger, we thin more corporally, what's on the outside. But when do we think about our ears? The last thing someone would think when 'putting your body at risk' comes to mind would be hearing. 

The video above is to test what pitches we are capable of hearing. Hearing can be diminished from a variety of causes, age or damage. If we start out with healthy hearing and are younger than a particular age, exposure from the choices we make can make us unable to hear some of the pitches above. What can you not hear? 

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