Karina van Heck’s Body Speaker

"Karina van Heck’s Body Speaker is a experimental electronic music system that consists of a number of wearable devices that amplify and capture the internal sounds of your body."

CBK 's-Hertogenbosch Karina van Heck - Wearable Event from Gordon Tiemstra on Vimeo.

The device draws the wearer below the surface of his own skin and allows them to investigate and remix the various sounds of his bodily functions.

The project is a commentary and criticism of the use of invasive technologies, such as X-rays and small cameras used to observe internal organs, by the medical industry to probe the human body.

For me, this project suggests a certain spirituality that requests the user to listen and “tune” the frequency of his own body. It’s almost a metaphor for meditation.

Unfortunately, the promo video’s fetishistic focus on the mechanics of Body Speaker leaves you with barely any idea of what the output is – making you think that the model is hot, but the Body Speaker is not.