Heart Chamber Orchestra - Pixelache from pure on Vimeo.

In collaboration with the artistic duo TERMINALBEACH (a collaboration between PURE and BERGER), the 12 musicians of The Heart Chamber Orchestra read and perform a score generated in realtime from their own heartbeats.

ECG (electrocardiogram) sensors connected to each musician feed through a unique piece of computer software that simultaneously converts their biorhythmic data into a score. This score is then presented to each musician through a laptop in front of them, and the subsequent piece is the accumulated heartbeats of the orchestra.

An animated abstract visualization of this data is projected behind the musicians as an additional sensory display. No two performances are alike - as the performers own bodies and hearts oscillations dictate the score a truly original and beautiful composition is created.

Watch this clip above from last years PiIxelache in Helsinki.