Five Hearts

a room that listens back

Press play. Touch a note. Two minutes. The rest is held.

PROTOCOL 12

Stimulusa sequence of frequencies derived from recorded human hearts

Delivered4 min 48 s, continuous

Reportedhuman mesenchymal stem cells exposed to a sequence of frequencies derived from a recorded heart, delivered as vibration at 0.9 g. Within 12 to 24 hours the stemness genes Nanog, Sox-2 and Klf-4 were enhanced, then fell below those of unexposed cells. The cardiac genes GATA-4 and Nkx-2.5 rose significantly. So did the vessel genes VEGF and HGF.

Not reportedwhether the cells became heart muscle. The authors wrote that this was still under investigation.

Statusopen

This work does not repeat the experiment. It continues the sequence.

Sourcefifteen recordings of five hearts

Pillarstwo rise together: the note read from the heart, and the note the machine plays from it

Lightthe white one is the note you hear

Doseone pass

Endpointunrecorded

Observeryou

Heartbeats: Oliveira et al., The CirCor DigiScope Phonocardiogram Dataset v1.0.3, PhysioNet, 2022, doi:10.13026/tshs-mw03, Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0. A work of art. Not financial advice. Not medical advice.