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.