Brainwaves, Heartbeat, DNA Turned Into Music.
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A team of medical professionals and audio engineers have created
the Human Harmonic
Project, a sound experiment that “sonically represents the human
body at work.”
The project mixes elements of ambient electronic music with
actual recordings of rhythmic biological processes like heart beats and brain
waves.
In fact, the melodies are themselves generated by biological
data. Sound engineers converted the four base DNA nucleotides (ACGT) into tones
that follow the sequence of a DNA strand. This uptempo melody is blended with a
slower melody generated from brain activity — EEG brain waves measured while
performing simple tasks.
For drum and bass, as it were, the audio converts the rise and
fall of hormone levels along with the (ideally) steady rhythm of heartbeats
from an electrocardiograph monitor.
The project is a collaboration between the University
of Colorado Hospital and
the marketing agency Cactus.
The target audience is actually other medical professionals — the audio
recording is aimed at getting the attention of doctors and promoting UCH’s
research and 2014 outcomes. In fact, the track was pressed onto a limited
edition vinyl record and offered to doctors around the country.
For those of us who
still have that medical degree on the back burner, the Human Harmonic Project webpage has
streaming audio of the track, a downloadable MP3, a behind-the-scenes video and
an interactive mixer for isolating the different audio elements.
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