Posted on 06/13/2018 11:37:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
CALGARY, June 12, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A pair of music researchers have invented a musical instrument designed to be played by a preborn child in the womb.
Aura Pon, a mother who holds a music technology PhD from the University of Calgary, has teamed up with Johnty Wang to invent the “world’s first prenatal musical instrument,” CTV News reports.
The device, dubbed the Womba, is strapped to a pregnant woman’s belly and creates music in response to the kicks and other movements of the baby growing inside her. Users can choose a variety of different sounds, and speakers enable both mother and child to hear the results. Its creators also hope to adapt the device for the baby to continue using after birth.
The device’s function and evolution can be seen in the following video:
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“I thought it would be kind of fun to have him make sound,” Pon said, explaining that she first got the idea while pregnant with her first child in 2013. “I'm always interested in different ways you can interact with sound and music.”
“The first version of the Womba was, essentially, just sensors taped to my belly which were set up to trigger sounds on a church organ. The location of certain kicks would set off certain chords,” she elaborated to the university’s news website UToday. “As far as being a bonding tool, I’ll tell you that it was pretty amazing to be able to hear my baby making these sounds. It was magical.”
Pon and Wang, whose own wife was pregnant as well, spent the next few years evolving the concept from a hobby into a serious project to take advantage of the “Mozart effect,” the developmental benefit believed to come with playing music for children during pregnancy.
“It's also about bonding,” Pon added, stressing that the Womba also serves as an innovative way to convey the personhood of the being in the womb. “Those that can't feel the kicks all the time, you know, they can now see it and hear it and start to be like, 'That's a person in there.'”
Pon and Wang have applied for a U.S. patent for the Womba, and say a company has already expressed interest in helping develop it.
Preborn?
Normal folk would call that ‘unborn’. Doctors would say “in utero”.
Some folks jus gotta be differnt.
I can imagine some interesting studies developing from this.
There’s no room to rhumba in a sports car
Maybe they can teach the child Morse code?
“Less hot sauce, more chocolate, easy on the vino”
This could have benefits and success way beyond what we think right now. An exciting new invention on which to keep tabs.
This open the door to communicating with the baby in the womb.
Communication.....
Who says this new tool will be limited to music?
A means to make yourself known to the Outside World allows for other things than just music to be expressed.
...and this shows consciousness and intent.
“Intent.”
Can a pre-human cell cluster have “Intent” and if it can
communicate — even if only “music” — then how could
anyone deny it’s Fully Alive and Fully Human.
And THEN abortion would clearly be murder. Homocide.
Very nice. It actually calls the baby a baby. I predict, 7 days max until some raging man-hating feminazi comes out against this.
Observing, and determining intention, was the first thing I thought about.
Why do I keep picturing DJ Baby rocking it at the turntable?
I prefer actually PreBorn as it points towards them having status and just on the journey we all take. Otherwise why invest the time in doing this unless your intent is to see the outcome in your child
Unborn is a way of saying maybe yes, maybe no as to whether the mother in whose womb the child is growing will not choose to take a different course as some do and terminate that child’s chance at life
Words have power...
I placed Bose headphones on my belly when pregnant with my daughter. She ended up playing in the Kennedy Center Youth Orchestra and got a college scholarship in music performance.
Baby's first words: "Stop Kicking me!!!"
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haha!
I can only imagine the comment about the parents having sex. lol
The womb is the last vestige of peace before birth. Leave the child alone.
The drum solo from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Mom will just love that.
So am am I. Like when are babies in utero responsive and how will this effect abortion.
So am am I. Like when are babies in utero responsive and how will this effect abortion.
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