Electrocardiophone
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Electrocardiogram
Electrocardiography is a transthoracic interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time, as detected by electrodes attached to the outer surface of the skin and recorded by a device external to the body...
) to generate or modulate sounds.
James Fung, Ariel Garten
Ariel Garten
Ariel Garten is a Canadian artist, scientist and intellectual. She was an avant garde clothing designer with a store called Flavour Hall in Toronto, Canada. She is deemed to have made a "significant contribution to the field" for her work in integrating art and science...
, and Steve Mann
Steve Mann
Steven Mann , is a tenured professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.-Education:...
(~2003) have created a wide variety of underwater biophone systems that use physiological signals to control different musical variables in an intricate way, as well as to actually generate sounds, including underwater ECG and EEG concerts.
The electrocardiophone is a quintephone
Quintephone
In the classification proposed by Steve Mann, a Quintephone is a musical instrument that generates sound informatically .For Mann, electronic instruments, i.e...
in the sense that it creates sound from the "5th classical element" (i.e. from beyond the world of matter).
Related concepts
The electrocardiophone is related to the electroencephalophoneElectroencephalophone
An electroencephalophone or encephalophone is an experimental musical instrument or diagnostic tool which uses brain waves to generate or modulate sounds....
. In addition to sound-production, regenerative brainwave musical performances use brainwave interfaces to modify or manipulate or play along with sounds of other instruments in a live performance context.