- At first glance, building a drum machine that uses the heartbeats of children with congenital heart disease might be considered very poor taste.
- We’ve long admired Love Hultén’s retro computing, gaming and instrument creations, and even the more obtuse pieces, but this latest project walks a very different path – producing rhythms based on the echocardiograms of four children who were born with congenital heart disease (CHD).
- CHD is an umbrella term for a range of birth defects affecting the way the heart works, and is reported to occur in around one percent of live births in the US each year, and 2,000 children in Hultén’s home turf of Sweden.
Bizarre drum machine beats to a different rhythm to raise CHD awareness
