Cardiophone 2017 / Moran Duvshani

Cardiophone

Private listening to the melody of the heart.

This participatory piece combines a medical device and a music box, and hosts one visitor at a time.

Each participant is invited to a three-stage journey that starts by undergoing an ECG test and ends by listening to the unique melody generated by one's own heart.

This invention translates an individual physical record into sound and generates a personal music piece for each participant.

Artistic guidance: Ruth Hof

Objects construction: Shaul Duvshani

Music consultant: Laila Shuala

Costume design: Mai Aylon

Co-creators: Rotem Goldenberg and Roey Schurr

Video filming: Hila Spector, Hallel Maliniak

Video editing: Hila Spector

The story behind the Cardiophone - Pecha Kucha TLV 2018

Cardiophone in the Bell Tower

The Cardiophone premiered in a seven floor bell tower of the YMCA international space at the International Performance Festival of the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. The journey of climbing up the tower connected perfectly to the mental journey, when the first phase found its location deep below the ground, and the last stop - where the participants get to hear their own heart's melody - was located at the tower's highest point.
After eight hours of such personal journeys, all participants were invited to the tower's yard, and the carillon player tolled the music of all hearts with the tower’s 35 large bells, whose ringing resonated all across the city.

Artistic guidance: Ruth Hof
Co-creators: Roey Schurr, Rotem Goldenberg
Objects construction: Shaul Duvshani
Music consultant: Laila Shuala-Bettermann
Consultant and production in the Bell Tower: Marco Milevski
Costume design: Mai Aylon
Carillon player: Inna Dudakova
Cardiophone operators: Laila Shuala-Bettermann, Tal Adler, Mai Aylon, Amit Fishbein, Chanan Ben-Simon, Tali Meirson
Photography: Shira Aboulafia
Video filming: Hila Spector, Hallel Maliniak
Video editing: Hila Spector