General clarifications: [1] We started with recordings of the heart's electrical activity, not with sounds of heartbeats. [2] The music representations, more precisely the time structure representations, will help in signal analysis. [3] The music compositions give life to the time representations, allowing people to experience the time information they encode; they are not a necessary part of the analysis.
Related blogposts:
■ Daily Mail (UK): Spot problems early by turning your heartbeat into MUSIC (12 Dec 2017)
■ Science Donga (Korea): Early arrhythmia diagnosis by 'Arrhythmia Suite' (Nov 2017)
■ Sciences et Avenir (France): L'arythmie cardiaque pour composer au piano (3 Oct 2017)
■ Smithsonian Magazine (USA): Turning irregular heartbeats into music (22 Sep 2017)
■ iNews (UK): Pianist created novel way to help heart patients using music (17 Sep 2017)
■ MailOnline (UK): Scientist turns the sound of irregular heartbeats into classical music in the hope of helping doctors better diagnose the condition (15 Sep 2017)
• M-magazine (UK): Music based on Irregular Heartbeats Could Help Doctors (21 Sep 2017)
• Limelight (Australia): Music made from heartbeats may aid arrhythmia diagnosis (20 Sep 2017)
• Classic FM (UK): A pianist is composing classical music from irregular heartbeats, to help diagnose patients (20 Sep 2017)
Blogposts describing the music and arrhythmia project:
• Radcliffe Project Update and Seminar (19 Jul 2017)
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2017 Summer Fellowship (13 Jun 2017)
Source: www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?storyid=38998
