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High complexity, beautiful music, that's easy to listen to after an acoustic injury?

Discussion in 'Music Forum' started by genericities, Jun 28, 2025.

  1. genericities

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    I'm a musician and recently suffered an acoustic trauma. no hearing loss thankfully! but temporarily experiencing some things like pain hyperacusis. being treated with steroids rn, on auditory rest, and seeking high-complexity, beautiful music to "retrain" my brain to process sound. music with drums is a bit hard for me. classical, classical guitar (i love guitar and play guitar), ambient that's not "noise", no basic bitch stuff plz [​IMG]

    any recs appreciated! i hope to be back in the game in a couple weeks but wanna take advantage of this time. also sneaking in a lot of guitar playing tho i maybe shouldn't lol

    things that are compositionally complex but easy to listen to (as opposed to very dynamic stuff like movie soundtracks which would be hard for me rn) would be especially appreciated :heart:

    tytyty. the doc pretty told me the pain would go away and everything would return. so i am optimistic
     
  2. TriangularDuck

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    My recommendations here will lean towards ambient.

    Aiko Takahashi - It Could Have Been A Beautiful
    DIM - Steeped Sky, Stained Light
    Luke Wyland - Kuma Cove

    I would also check out the first two Harmonium albums. Canadian 70s prog folk, with no drummer (one was added on their third album). 'Les cinq saisons' would be my recommended starting point.
     
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  3. ImAMetaphor

    one with the riverbed Prestigious

    new hayden pedigo album. instrumental folk / country guitar album. minimal arrangements but incredible finger-picking guitar playing.
     
  4. genericities

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    i wanted to tell the internet that my high freq audiogram came back normal (10db up to 18khz which is the highest they test) in my left ear which was the one i was more worried about. mostly normal in my right ear up to 16khz (and prob 17 from yt tests) but it's also still healing from a steroid injection so i'm fully expecting it to be similar once that heals. maybe i'll even grab that 18khz band.

    :heart:
     
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