Research on synthesizing music for tinnitus treatment based on chaos

Tinnitus is a common clinical symptom. It has a bad effect on one´s hearing and sleeping, and can cause people to feel depression. Tinnitus does great harm to the patients´ work and lives. In recent years, scholars focus on the research of tinnitus retraining therapy, which is on the basis of neurophysiology and psychology model. According to the surveys, it has a good effect by using some music to decompress, to regulate negative emotion, and to relieve tinnitus. Thus, patients can relax vigilance against tinnitus, break the association and the vicious cycle chain between negative emotion and tinnitus. Based upon the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) files synthesis and the chaos theory, which is characterized by a seemingly random but an inherent and deep regulation, this paper proposes a new method which applies chaos to synthetic music, for tinnitus medical rehabilitation. Experiment results show that the proposed method can achieve good effects and has practical reference value.