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INSIDE is a synthesiser experience that will show your inner state to the outside world, by measuring your heartbeat-coherency and translating this into music.
why go INSIDE?
How are you doing? really? Our emotional state is always with us, shaping our actions and perceptions. But although we cannot escape it, we are rarely truly aware of it -leaving us unconscious.
Sometimes, it can be difficult to face our feelings, and in society nowadays it has become all too easy to find any escape, distraction.
But if you dare to go inside, to be confronted with the (dis)coherence of your heart, then plug yourself in! As you hide yourself between the heavenly covers of INSIDE, you might gain some more awareness and control over own your emotional state...
How it works
To experience INSIDE, you connect yourself to a heartbeat sensor via 3 ECG stickers. The sensor sends data about your electrical heartbeat to a microcontroller (teensy 3.6), that is coded to map the interval between your heartbeats. It then calculates how coherent the rhythm is, based on your last 10 beats. A coherent heart rhythm corresponds to a peaceful state, where an incoherent rhythm corresponds to a state of frustration, anxiety, etc.
From this, it generates music: a coherent rhythm will create harmonious music, an incoherent rhythm disharmonious music. -based on scales, chords, wavefunctions, and timing.
For the ones that are curious about their inner music, but don't want to share it with the world around them, INSIDE can also be experienced through headphones!
