Louis Lamp began writing music regularly while he was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany, completing “An Open Mind” just days before his first deployment. After combat, he took a siesta from writing. It wasn’t obvious at the time, but in 2011 when he began as a hearing research test subject, the obstacle to writing music for Louis was a change in his hearing. Since helping the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR) in Portland, OR he resumed writing music. Today, he willfully writes and s…