Little Etudes for piano based on aberrations of cardiac electrophysiology
Channel: cosmos
Date: 2020-09-12

Little Etudes (https://bit.ly/LittleEtudes) by Elaine Chew – short piano pieces based on cardiac electrical anomalies – introduced by cardiologist Prof. Pier Lambiase. Such similarities between music and heart rhythms are exploited in ERC AdG project Cosmos (https://cosmos.cnrs.fr).

LITTLE ETUDES for piano based on aberrations of cardiac electrophysiology
I. Atrial Fibrillation ... 1:16
II. Bigeminy Sea-snatch (Ventricular Bigeminy) ... 2:50
III. Atrial Flutter ... 3:24
IV. The Girl with the Labile T Waves ... 4:19
V. Per Torsade (Torsade de Pointes) ... 5:24
VI. A La Bru Rondo Turk (Ventricular Ectopics) ... 6:09
VII. Wenckebach Lullaby (Wenckebach Block) ... 7:04
Download scores at https://bit.ly/LittleEtudes-WHRW2020 .

Other arrhythmia pieces at https://bit.ly/ArrhythmiaMusic

On why it works to map arrhythmia ECGs to music:
Putting (One's) Heart Into Music (CardioPulse article in the European Heart Journal, 2021): https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab108

On how the arrhythmia pieces are made:
Making Music from Heartbeats (in Handbook of AI for Music, ed. Miranda ER, Springer 2021): https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03081561

See also
Ircam news - https://bit.ly/ec-Ircam2019
Spiegel: Sounds for the Heart - https://bit.ly/ec-Spiegel20
Le Monde / CNRS Le Journal - https://bit.ly/LePianoVirtuose
ERC PoC Heart-FM - https://bit.ly/HeartFM-INS2I

The Little Etudes by Elaine Chew were originally released singly, one per day, for World Heart Rhythm Week, 1-7 June 2020. This rendition of all seven etudes incorporates introductions to each cardiac electrical aberration by Pier Lambiase, Professor of Cardiology at UCL. It was created for the Ircam AIxMusic Garden at ArsElectronica20 ; released 11 September 2020, in advance of World Heart Day. The music in this video was recorded at Ircam and re-performed on the Bösendorfer VC280 Enspire PRO by sound engineer Daniel Bedoya.

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