MORTEM
A dead man's trigger with one job. It listens to the same heartbeat this page does. While the line moves, it does nothing. The day the line goes flat for good, it sends the letters I wrote to the people I love.
Watching
- VITALS // CHRISTOPHER CELAYA
- 31.7619 N 106.4850 W · EL PASO, TX
- SIGNAL: PACEMAKER → HYPERATE → THIS PAGE
- LISTENER: MORTEM · ARMED
- STATUS: ALIVE
72 bpm demo
This is my actual heart. A pacemaker keeps the rhythm and streams the rate. When the strip moves, I am alive and this page knows it.
If the state reads waiting, the device is asleep or off my chest. Signal lost is not silence. MORTEM knows the difference.
The lab
Instruments
Live deploys
Passages indexed
Research instruments, not products. Local-first, provenance-aware, answerable to physical consequence.
C-Cell
Samples
Session day
Music production as cognitive research. Every track an experiment in what sound does to the nervous system.
Follow the work
The instruments keep this page honest on their own. The journal lands when there is something worth saying.