Orbits framed print of an ultrasound heartbeat hung above a cot in a new nursery — baby heartbeat sound wave art from ultrasound
Baby Heartbeat

The First Sound of a Life

Baby heartbeat sound wave art from the MP3 on your ultrasound app, or audio pulled from the video you filmed in the scan room. Printed once, on archival paper, for the nursery wall they will grow up under.

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Deterministic from your recording · Printed once on archival materials

Ten minutes on a scan bed. The sound of a heartbeat, amplified through a speaker in a dim room, heard for the first time. The recording lives inside an app that could be gone with the next software update. We give the first sound of your baby a body: printed once, on archival paper, hung above the cot they will sleep in.

Orbits · Classic Framed Print, 12×16″ · Hahnemühle paper

Finished Pieces

From recording to room.

Each example begins with a specific sound and ends as a wall-mounted artwork: composed for the room, faithful to the recording.

Orbits — The heartbeat at the twelve-week scan

Orbits

The heartbeat at the twelve-week scan

Meridian — Twin heartbeats, captured in the same sweep

Meridian

Twin heartbeats, captured in the same sweep

Lattice — Her heartbeat, recorded from the doppler at home

Lattice

Her heartbeat, recorded from the doppler at home

Aureole — The moment the room went quiet and we heard it

Aureole

The moment the room went quiet and we heard it

Corona — Twenty-week scan, the second I cried

Corona

Twenty-week scan, the second I cried

Strata — His heartbeat at thirty-two weeks, steady and loud

Strata

His heartbeat at thirty-two weeks, steady and loud

Why

  • Why a sound

    The twelve-week scan is ten minutes long. The recording — if you remembered to press record, if the app didn't crash, if you haven't already accidentally deleted it to free up storage — is often the only surviving audio of a pregnancy. Printed on archival cotton rag, the first sound of your baby stops being a file on a phone and becomes something you can hang. A baby heartbeat sound wave art piece is one of the few keepsakes that exists from before the birth itself. Often bought for a first pregnancy, after IVF, or at the end of a long wait — where the sound of it is the thing that made everything real. Cross-linked with the new baby gift for parents who want both: the heartbeat for themselves, a first words print for the grandparents.

  • What you'll receive

    Museum-quality framed prints on Hahnemühle German Etching paper: 310gsm cotton rag, archival pigment inks, solid wood frames. Fine art giclée prints on the same archival paper, unframed. Hand-stretched canvas for a bold, contemporary statement. Or a luminous acrylic panel that floats from the wall. Built to outlast a lifetime.

  • Not AI, never AI

    Every Vox Materia piece is produced by hand-crafted algorithms, not neural networks. The same audio always produces the same artwork — a deterministic translation of sound into form, faithful to the recording you give it.

Process

  1. Capture

    Drop in the heartbeat MP3 from your ultrasound app (Baby Beat, HearMyBaby, Shell Doppler and others export one). If you only have a video from the scan, upload that — we pull the audio from it.

  2. Expression

    Eight algorithms, each a different visual language. Pick the one that resonates.

  3. Materialise

    Choose paper, canvas, or acrylic. Preview the finished piece on the wall it will hang on.

  4. Realise

    Printed by specialist partners on Hahnemühle paper, shipped worldwide.

  • The first time I heard his heartbeat I was twenty-three weeks pregnant and I have not stopped thinking about that sound. It hangs in the nursery now. He will grow up underneath it.

  • We had three rounds of IVF. The twelve-week scan was the longest silence of my life, then the loudest. I needed the sound of it on the wall. I needed to know I had not imagined it.

  • I found an old cassette of my mother reading me a bedtime story. I am thirty-seven years old and I cried. Then I framed it.

  • I saved the ultrasound MP3 to three different clouds because I was terrified of losing it. Printing it on paper was the first time I stopped being afraid of losing it.

Practicalities

  • 8–14 business days from order to arrival.

  • We accept any ultrasound source: MP3 from the clinic app, a recording of the scan playing back, a video clip filmed in the room.

  • Inscription available: the baby's name, the due date, or the week and day of the scan.

  • If you choose to make your art playable, we securely store your audio for QR code playback. Only the QR code gives access to playback — you can always ask us to delete your audio.

  • Smallest size starts at 8×10″ for a nursery wall.

Questions

Yes. Baby Beat, HearMyBaby, Shell Doppler and most other ultrasound apps export the recording as an MP3. Drop it in directly — the engine renders the full rhythm and resonance of the heartbeat into a one-of-one print on archival paper.
It does. Upload the video clip and the engine pulls the audio directly. A phone video filmed across the scan room, a recording of the ultrasound screen, a clip from a home doppler — all work.
Even ten seconds is enough. Short heartbeat loops produce some of the sharpest, most concentrated compositions the engine renders. Longer recordings (a minute, two minutes) produce denser, more layered pieces. Both are beautiful — use what you have.
You can. Twin heartbeats captured in the same scan produce one of the richest artworks the engine generates: two rhythms, overlapping, rendered at scale. For siblings, upload each heartbeat separately or concatenate them into a single file — we'll render both into the same piece, side by side or layered, as you prefer.
Your recording is processed once by our hand-crafted algorithms, not by AI. It is never used to train anything, never shared, and discarded immediately after rendering unless you choose to make the piece playable — in that case we securely store it for QR code playback on the print. Only the QR code gives access; you can always ask us to delete it.
The sound of the first scan, rendered as art for the nursery wall. It is the one keepsake from a pregnancy that is specifically, unmistakably this baby — not a generic nursery print, not a name-and-birth-date poster. A baby heartbeat sound wave art piece made from the ultrasound recording itself belongs only to this family.
No. Line-drawing ultrasound art traces a single waveform and prints it flat. We render the full spectral structure of the heartbeat — the pulse, the harmonics, the resonance of each beat — through eight different generative algorithms. The result is a complete shape of the heartbeat, not a silhouette of it.

Other occasions

The first sound, on the wall.

Drop in the heartbeat MP3 from your ultrasound app, or a video from the scan. We will render the rhythm you cannot stop thinking about into something you can hold.

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