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Music THAT MOVES ONE - H. VIBHU

You are listening to some music, maybe at a concert, maybe a live recording, and your eyes get a little misty, there is a lump in your throat and all of this is unbidden. You realise that you are listening to some music coming from the heart. Either the beauty of the composition or the sincere mastery of the performer gets to you without your even realising it.

How about it if the music really came from the heart? That what you were listening to, was, in a weird way, what was in the musician's heart? The Heart Chamber Orchestra (HCO; project details at http://www.heartchamberorchestra.org/) aims to do that exactly.

So, how do they manage that? The HCO is a live concert/performance by 12 (Western) Classical musicians and artist duo TerminalBleach. And they play what their hearts tell them. The twelve musicians have electrocardiogram sensors monitoring their heart. The sensors send the live data to a program that converts the heartbeat to a musical score. The musicians then play the score in front of them.

As the musicians play and listen to what their own hearts say, it changes the way their hearts beat, which in turn influences the musical composition that they are getting to play. The whole concert is in a complete (loss-less, if you can call it) and genuine feedback loop. The concert is presented in a traditional fashion, with the one change being that musicians read their score off a laptop screen instead of sheets of paper.

If you think technology and computers are destroying genuine creativity in music, think again - here is technology trying to bring you music from the heart.

N. Nagaraj

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