RITMI – 1997
Instructions:
Guests sit down and place the forefinger of their right hand on the heart sensor.
By pushing a button, guests can change the musical tone of their cardiac rhythm.
Experience time 1 – 10 minutes
RITMI is an interactive installation which allows up to four people to develop a musical game based on the beats of their hearts.
The installation structure is composed of a wooden circular table and four stools.
On the table are four heart beat sensors, along with controls, plastic cylinders and four sets of brass wind-sleeves.
The visitors sit around the table and place a finger in their respective cardiac frequency sensors.
Each visitor’s pulse is both audible (via the wind-sleeves) and ‘visible’ on luminous pulsing cylinders.
Each user has the power to alter the tone of their own cardiac rhythm.
By pressing a button, the user can choose from over one hundred different musical expressions.
In such a way a ‘symphony’ of sound is generated and can be continuously modified, either by the cardiac rhythm which reveals the user’s emotional state, or by the intentional choices of the participant.