I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!
As far as the sounds on the space station, it's pumps, fans, motors, certain modules are louder than others, but it's generally a pretty nice working environment. It's not too loud or too smelly.
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.
The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to the fine nerve endings in the inner ear, though it is worse in the left, which is the side of my snare drum and the monitor.
Technology is improving to prevent musicians from losing their hearing while performing on stage... audience members losing their hearing from listening to loud music… people being able to experience music not just with their ears, but with touch or with through their eyes.
My ears are shot. I'm a musician.
