Cordis
Cordis is an R&D project exploring how heart-rate data could become part of music, motion, storytelling and visual identity. The project uses biometric input as a creative material, testing how a person’s pulse might influence sound, rhythm, colour, movement and atmosphere.
The work exists as a playable prototype, but the broader interest is in what this kind of data could become. Heart rate, recovery, sleep, movement and training are usually translated into graphs, scores and dashboards. Cordis asks whether those signals could also become something more emotional: a way to shape a piece of music, shift the mood of a visual system, or become part of a wider design language.
Each pulse can trigger notes from an acoustic piano recorded at home, while also affecting the behaviour of the visuals. Some experiments explore colour as a biometric signal, with lower heart-rate zones moving through cooler blues and greens, and higher zones shifting toward warmer oranges and reds.
The project also points toward more speculative ideas around music, presence and responsive identity systems: an album that unfolds through your own heart-rate data, a shared composition shaped by two bodies in different places, or a brand world that behaves less like a fixed set of assets and more like something people help activate.
The visual language draws from medical imagery, ultrasound scans, cardiac imaging and colour Doppler systems. These references are built for clarity and diagnosis rather than expression, which gives them a strange kind of sincerity. Cordis is informed by that accidental beauty, reworking it into a softer and more emotional audio-visual language.
Cordis is not a finished product or health tool. It is a working sketch, a way of testing how biological data might be used to tell stories, shape interaction and become part of a responsive design system.
The work exists as a playable prototype, but the broader interest is in what this kind of data could become. Heart rate, recovery, sleep, movement and training are usually translated into graphs, scores and dashboards. Cordis asks whether those signals could also become something more emotional: a way to shape a piece of music, shift the mood of a visual system, or become part of a wider design language.
Each pulse can trigger notes from an acoustic piano recorded at home, while also affecting the behaviour of the visuals. Some experiments explore colour as a biometric signal, with lower heart-rate zones moving through cooler blues and greens, and higher zones shifting toward warmer oranges and reds.
The project also points toward more speculative ideas around music, presence and responsive identity systems: an album that unfolds through your own heart-rate data, a shared composition shaped by two bodies in different places, or a brand world that behaves less like a fixed set of assets and more like something people help activate.
The visual language draws from medical imagery, ultrasound scans, cardiac imaging and colour Doppler systems. These references are built for clarity and diagnosis rather than expression, which gives them a strange kind of sincerity. Cordis is informed by that accidental beauty, reworking it into a softer and more emotional audio-visual language.
Cordis is not a finished product or health tool. It is a working sketch, a way of testing how biological data might be used to tell stories, shape interaction and become part of a responsive design system.
Key deliverables
R&D prototype
Interactive system
Biometric interaction
Audio system
Generative visual system
Motion design
R&D prototype
Interactive system
Biometric interaction
Audio system
Generative visual system
Motion design