Brent Harris is the founding drummer of New Zealand band Cut Off Your Hands. He’s also had sensorineural hearing loss since his late teens, which means his hearing is slowly but steadily deteriorating and may one day go entirely. Continue →
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Yukiko Ito on having microtia, & hearing music for the first time
Yukiko Ito has bilateral microtia, a congenital condition which means that her ears aren’t fully formed. As a teenager she became the first person in Japan to be fitted with a bone anchored hearing device, and has since worked to raise awareness around both the device and microtia itself. Continue →