Last posts on heart chamber orchestra2026-11-12T05:25:07+01:00All Rights Reserved blogSpirithttps://starter.blogspirit.com/https://starter.blogspirit.com/en/explore/posts/tag/heart%20chamber%20orchestra/atom.xmlAndrea Gaggiolihttp://gaggio.blogspirit.com/about.htmlHeart Chamber Orchestratag:gaggio.blogspirit.com,2010-08-26:19716342010-08-26T20:02:00+02:002010-08-26T20:02:00+02:00 The Heart Chamber Orchestra consists of classical musicians who use...
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="headline">The <a target="_blank" title="heart chamber orchestra" href="http://heartchamberorchestra.org/index.html">Heart Chamber Orchestra</a> consists of</span> classical musicians who use their heartbeats to control a computer composition and visualization environment. To my best knowledge, this is the first example of "group biofeedback".</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The musicians are equipped with ECG (electrocardiogram) sensors. A computer monitors and analyzes the state of these 12 hearts in real time. The acquired information is used to compose a musical score with the aid of computer software. It is a living score dependent on the state of the hearts.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="hcoquadrooo.jpg" src="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/wow/hcoquadrooo.jpg" class="mt-image-none" height="242" width="369" /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="0aalesfelchesiii.jpg" src="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/wow/0aalesfelchesiii.jpg" class="mt-image-none" height="239" width="366" /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br /> While the musicians are playing, their heartbeats influence and change the composition and vice versa. The musicians and the electronic composition are linked via the hearts in a circular motion, a feedback structure. The emerging music evolves entirely during the performance.<br /> <br /> The resulting music is the expression of this process and of an organism forming itself from the circular interplay of the individual musicians and the machine.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The sensor network consists of 12 individual sensors; each one is fitted onto the body of a musician. A computer receives the heartbeat data. Software analyzes the data and generates via different algorithms the real-time musical score for the musicians, the electronic sounds and the computer graphic visualization<br /> <br /> Below is a video documentation from the <span class="headline">Heart Chamber Orchestra</span> performance on the 28th of March 2010 at Kiasma Theatre at Pixelache Festival in Helsinki, Finland.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><object height="279" width="339" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11717447&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="src" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11717447&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /></object></p> <p> </p>