Projektnummer

0065070

Zusammenfassung

Musical sounds rarely go alone. In fact, the interplay and mix of instruments or voices is at the heart of music composition, performance, and production. Listeners separate polyphonic mixtures into foreground and background, or melody and accompaniment, through so-called auditory scene analysis. What if the ears become imprecise as for hearing-impaired individuals? Is it still possible to hear out a solo violin in the midst of an orchestra? In contrast to speech perception, research on music perception has traditionally not addressed hearing loss. As the first large-scale campaign into this t...