Every year on June 21, music is celebrated. On this symbolic day, it is dedicated to the pure enjoyment of listening and communing with all kinds of music. But what if music could harm your ears?
The ear is the physiological vector for receiving music, an essential passage before cerebral integration and the almost chemical blossoming provoked by melodies and their interpreters. Thus, a healthy ear is necessary to make this privileged moment a time of delight.
A few preventive concepts against noise aggression must be highlighted to protect a unique auditory capital, a fragile and irreplaceable sanctuary of a fundamental link with the world. The ear is a neuro-sensory organ of great anatomical and functional complexity. The latest discoveries regularly inform us of the unexpected array of multiple functions of the ear’s cells. Deployed at the number of 15,000 per ear at birth in humans, they have a single disadvantage: they cannot be replaced if damaged or destroyed.
This further underscores the crucial nature of protecting our auditory capital. Any inappropriate strain on our ears quickly becomes an irreversible source of degradation in our hearing quality. There is no threat in this statement, only an intention to raise awareness in everyone about the importance of taking care of their ears, even on June 21, especially on June 21.
To what sound power can one subject their ear without risk?
Labor legislation has established the basis for an international agreement on the sound power not to exceed: 85 dB.
Let us remember this number, knowing that an industrial noise is different in its physical composition from a musical sound. However, the limit thus defined has the merit of being recognized by the scientific community and represents a threshold not to be crossed.
It is also important to remember that music is just as dangerous as any noise.
Therefore, like alcohol, it should be consumed in moderation, even on June 21, the Fête de la Musique!
