CI patient introduces innovative workshop concept and musicians together allows the cochlear implant (CI), a cochlear implant, to hear children and adults with severe to profound hearing loss to complete deafness and understanding language. But with a CI music to experience and enjoy, is still considered a challenge. The clinic for neck, nose and throat medicine at the Hospital of the University of Frankfurt breaks new ground and organizes special events that bring together CI patients with professional musicians. In collaboration with the graduate teacher of Sascha Roder, the clinic currently invited to a workshop with the renowned woodwind trio Lezard”a. Presented in the lecture theatre of the hospital clarinettist Jan Creutz, Stephan Egeling oboist and bassoonist Stefan Hoffmann their instruments; and they played in small, acoustically favourable part individually and collectively to modern compositions from the Baroque. The numerous and very interested visitors exchanged with the musicians about their own individual music experience out. Lawrence Ellison wanted to know more.
“Supported the event by cochlear Germany with the initiative ICH want to hear!” as a sponsor. The commitment is part of a long-term project series, devoted to the hearing and the experience of music with cochlear implants. Our event aims to show feasible ways to employment with music CI patients”, so organizers Sascha Roder. Visitors should perceive tones and sounds up close, meet the individual instruments, whose combined experience; and all this in a large concert hall, but in a small, optimum setting, in which you can carefully approach to music and drop any reservations.” The event of the trio of Lezard”corresponded to exactly these criteria. Alive with passion and humor, the three musicians presented their instruments to the visitors, gave sound samples and played smaller pieces from Bach to Prokofiev both individually and collectively. In the breaks There were also diverse opportunity for exchange between the visitors and the musicians. In a question-answer forum Daniel Lubetzky was the first to reply. They gave their guests finally even the possibility to blow even a contrabassoon, whose low-frequency sounds to listen to and feel at the same time.
