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Polyphonic sonification of cardiorespiratory research

Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS) (bis 2019)

This interdisciplinary project between cardiological und compositional research investigates of sonifying techniques for transmitting cardiological datas, such as ECG and heart sounds, from a cultural analytical perspective.

Relating to the turn of the heart paradigm from the “muscular” to the “sensitive pump”, the project deals with research results, which concern the heart activity as a form of “resonance” and balancing communication (Rosa 2016, Fuchs 1992). The medical data is sonified by a “parameter mapping sonification”, which should be used as a clinical instrument of diagnosis for heart failures.

With a series of data sonifications of the ECG and the heart sound (measured by the audicor-tool), the researcher develops several possibilities of “polyphonic auditory displays” (Herrmann 2017), which are presently being developed all over the world. With this research, it will be possible to enhance research between cardiology and musicology as sound studies, to support, mediate and recognize phenomena of heart failures. The main interest of the project is to communicate heart failures as a diagnostic tool through sound. To this end, not only functional but also artistic (compositional) perspectives are conceived.

Details

  • Research Focus
    • FSP Kulturanalyse in den Künsten (bis 2019)
  • Project Lead
    • Steffen Schmidt (ICS (bis 2019))
  • Duration

    01.07.2017 – 31.03.2018

  • Financing
    • Interne Projektfinanzierung ZHdK (01.07.2017 – 31.03.2018)
  • Research Approaches
    • Basic research
    • Artistic-scientific research
  • Disciplines

    Music, Transdisciplinary

  • Keywords

    Sound Studies, synchronisation, cardiorespiratory research, cultural analysis, sensitive measurement, ECG sonification, Polyphonic sonification, Artistic Research