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2004-03-08 - 10:56 a.m.
Sometimes public television is good for you:
I watched part of a show based on the book "The Sacred Balance" by David Suzuki last night.
I caught the segment where Suzuki goes to Harvard and is given an ECG (heart monitor) by cardiologist, Ary Goldberger. Using this little thing called computer technology Goldberger has developed a way to replicate the undulations of the human heart into musical notes.
"What's the point?" you ask.
Well, what Goldberger discovered is that a healthy human heart doesn't beat with a regular lub-dub lub/dub lub/dub rhythm as scientists had originally thought. Instead, our hearts beat with a striking and erratically beautiful irregularity.
Goldberger tracked the beats of healthy human hearts at rest for several hours at a time and transferred the minute variations into musical notes via computer. When he strung the notes together they made up beautiful and complicated symphonies.
Our hearts have been playing music all along.
Lean in and listen to each other's songs, maybe this is how we will hear each other.