{"id":5109,"date":"2015-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/2015\/04\/08\/university-of-colorado-hospital-launches-human-harmonic-album\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T10:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T16:29:30","slug":"university-of-colorado-hospital-launches-human-harmonic-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/university-of-colorado-hospital-launches-human-harmonic-album\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Colorado Hospital Launches \u201cHuman Harmonic\u201d Album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contact<\/strong>: Jessica Berry\u00a0 720-848-5878<\/span>; Jessica.Berry@uchealth.org<\/a><\/p>\n

AURORA, Colo.<\/strong> – The University of Colorado Hospital (UCH), has created a symphony of sound based on different aspects of the human body. \u00a0Billed as \u201can album 200,000 years in the making,\u201d the Human Harmonic project enlisted the help of audio engineers to convert data from DNA sequences and ECG and EEG readings into a sonic representation of the human body.<\/p>\n

The sound of a heartbeat is the most mainstream in our society.\u00a0 It\u2019s used in movies as sound effects, or to lull babies to sleep\u2014we can even listen to the beats of our own heart through a stethoscope.<\/p>\n

But we wondered, what would other functions of the human body sound like?\u00a0 What if we assigned musical notes to health indicators like a DNA strain, or brain activity? UCH\u2019s Human Harmonic project created a symphony of sound, opening our ears to the complexity and beauty of the human body in a completely new way.<\/p>\n

To create the track, we sourced data from four fields of medicine: cardiology, neuroscience, oncology, and endocrinology. On the website, you can isolate the elements of the track to hear only one piece at a time.<\/p>\n

One of the tracks used in the Human Harmonic Project was based on a sequence of DNA.\u00a0 Increasingly, our doctors now read parts of our DNA sequences to diagnose disease, predict future health problems, and determine which medicines might work best to treat illnesses. \u00a0Some doctors predict that in a few years, nearly all patients will have their DNA sequences included as part of their medical record.<\/p>\n

\u201cScientists have made great strides in understanding how cells \u2018read\u2019 our DNA sequences, but we have limited understanding of what this process \u2019sounds\u2019 like to a cell. And while we cannot shrink ourselves down to the size of a human cell, I found it soothing to listen to a DNA sequence transformed into a musical experience and briefly contemplate some of the biological harmony contained in our DNA,\u201d said Dr. Matt Taylor, director of the Genetics and Personalized Medicine program at UCH.<\/p>\n

The tracks can be accessed at www.humanharmonic.com and downloaded at no charge.<\/p>\n