{"id":222692,"date":"2023-04-08T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T00:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=222692"},"modified":"2023-04-08T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T00:10:14","slug":"chd-4-the-arrhythmic-drum-machine-that-turns-heart-diseases-into-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/design\/chd-4-the-arrhythmic-drum-machine-that-turns-heart-diseases-into-music\/","title":{"rendered":"CHD-4, the arrhythmic drum machine that turns heart diseases into music"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHD-4 designed by the audiovisual artist Love Hult\u00e9n, together with the Swedish tech company teenage engineering<\/h3>\r\n

T<\/span>he auction to raise funds for the Swedish Heartchild Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports children born with congenital heart disease, ended just last month.<\/p>\r\n

The call, which thematically started on Valentine\u2019s Day and ended this 28th of February, has led to the sale of the exclusive piece CHD-4 <\/i>designed by the audiovisual artist Love Hult\u00e9n<\/a>, together with the Swedish tech company teenage engineering<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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CHD\u20134<\/i> is a unique art piece producing rhythms based on the heartbeats of four children with congenital heart defects that gathers art, technology and design around a touching purpose. Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is actually the most common birth defect in the world, counting a frightening number of 1.3 million sick babies born, every year.<\/p>\r\n

Despite that, the issue has low general awareness. To increase knowledge and engagement, they joined forces with the foundation and developed a sequencer made from heartbeats.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The OLED screen traces the irregular pulses visually, as a real ECG machine. The user can choose \u201ctracks\u201d by enabling the four disease channels.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

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The instrument functions as a modular synthesizer where each ECG has been decoded to a sequencer, enabling the user to play and create with the heartbeats of each child. The patterns can be played together or individually in order to create sounds that exemplify \"each child's irregular heartbeat.\"\u00a0<\/p>\r\n