What is The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss?
Founded on the belief that all people are meant to do more with their lives than be spectators, The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss is a collection of independent artists and bands inspiring and encouraging each other to lead actively creative lives.
The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss projects are created when members choose a theme and challenge each other to record audio responses (usually songs but occasionally poems or sound collages) based on that theme.
Our current project challenges members to find a song they hate and make it their own. Past projects have included recording a song for children, recording a song in a style from the 1960’s and recording a song in 10 days.
A Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss project is like a friendly battle of the bands. It's not a competition, but knowing that your recordings will be heard side by side with those of other artists encourages a higher quality product than thinking that the only other person to hear your songs is the one banging on the wall begging you to turn them down.
The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss is a community of recording enthusiasts who provide an eager audience for each others work. They critique each others submissions, offer tips for improvement and help each other problem solve along the unpaved road of the creative process.
The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss projects give members incentive to flex creative muscles and keep musical skills sharp. It also provides a forum for their work.
Deadlines force members to make time in their hectic lives to do something creative that they enjoy.
Although some members of The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss are professional musicians, most are non-gigging, rarely gigging or no longer gigging musicians.
The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss projects are created when members choose a theme and challenge each other to record audio responses (usually songs but occasionally poems or sound collages) based on that theme.
Our current project challenges members to find a song they hate and make it their own. Past projects have included recording a song for children, recording a song in a style from the 1960’s and recording a song in 10 days.
A Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss project is like a friendly battle of the bands. It's not a competition, but knowing that your recordings will be heard side by side with those of other artists encourages a higher quality product than thinking that the only other person to hear your songs is the one banging on the wall begging you to turn them down.
The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss is a community of recording enthusiasts who provide an eager audience for each others work. They critique each others submissions, offer tips for improvement and help each other problem solve along the unpaved road of the creative process.
The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss projects give members incentive to flex creative muscles and keep musical skills sharp. It also provides a forum for their work.
Deadlines force members to make time in their hectic lives to do something creative that they enjoy.
Although some members of The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss are professional musicians, most are non-gigging, rarely gigging or no longer gigging musicians.
Origins of The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss
The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss started by accident in 2003 when George Nisula and Stephen Romone Lewis commented that one of their friends, Tim Sprague, had written a lot of great songs and that it was unfortunate that more people hadn't heard them. Over the next 6 months, they sought out people that had played in bands with Tim as well as Tim's fans to record some of his tunes. The end result, a CD called A Musical Enema (A Tribute To Tim Sprague), produced 21 tracks from 29 musicians from 2 coastlines. The project was so much fun, the group immediately vowed to do it again.
And so 6 years later they did. Under the direction of Jim Dryden of the band Moonflower, they recorded 2 CDs worth of music and poetry inspired by the '60s, titled: Sounds From the Fat Man's Hat (A Collective Musical Interlude). Six additional bands participated and the sound quality of the project greatly improved over the first project.
While preparing for their third project, a compilation of children's songs, it was tentatively agreed that the collection of bands and artists working together might sort of possibly want to have a name to work under, maybe. After receiving a handful of suggestions and many yawns of indifference, it was definitively decided that, if they were going to call themselves anything, it should be something stupid and hence, The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss was born.
All Hail The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss!
And so 6 years later they did. Under the direction of Jim Dryden of the band Moonflower, they recorded 2 CDs worth of music and poetry inspired by the '60s, titled: Sounds From the Fat Man's Hat (A Collective Musical Interlude). Six additional bands participated and the sound quality of the project greatly improved over the first project.
While preparing for their third project, a compilation of children's songs, it was tentatively agreed that the collection of bands and artists working together might sort of possibly want to have a name to work under, maybe. After receiving a handful of suggestions and many yawns of indifference, it was definitively decided that, if they were going to call themselves anything, it should be something stupid and hence, The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss was born.
All Hail The Society for the Advancement of Hearing Loss!