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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SaHIYxpqc0

The clues are in the article. The tracks are called "Left Ear" and "Right Ear" and are on YouTube.

I've seen them but there is absolutely no information at all. They don't sound like my own Tinnitus and they actually sound like a whistle. I know it is different for everyone but without a peer review this is pure marketing. Don't you believe the unnamed scientists would have published at least a preview with the release of the album? This would be groundbreaking work...

You don't see a lot of peer review on articles about musicians in an arts magazine.

Search for "otoacoustic emissions" and you will find a bunch of research on this going back 30 years.

FWIW, the sound in the YouTube video sounds exactly like my tinnitus.

So this is old news? I really didn't know. I guess the original title with first recording of Tinnitus was a bit misleading.

In the article they also talk about otoacoustic emissions being a known phenomenon:

> Present in most children but believed to fade over time, they’re also found far more in musicians than in other adults, for reasons yet unknown.

This is apparently normal for magazines. I understand people wanting trashy fluff pieces, but I'm surprised people here do also.

Really? You’re surprised that people on HN of all places want trashy fluff?

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