| Senior Researcher, CNRS – UMR9912 / STMS Lab www.stms-lab.fr/person/elaine-chew | repmus.ircam.fr/eniale IRCAM, 1 place Igor Stravinsky, 75004 Paris, France Office: +33 (0) 1 44 78 48 35 E-mail: <firstname>.<lastname>@ircam.fr Visiting Professor, King's College London Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Science (Engineering) www.kcl.ac.uk/people/elaine-chew Principal Investigator, ERC ADG project COSMOS: Computational Shaping and Modeling of Musical Structures Principal Investigator, ERC POC project HEART.FM: Maximizing the Therapeutic Potential of Music through Tailored Therapy with Physiological Feedback in Cardiovascular Disease |
Selected News and Highlights
• World Heart Day 2020: #UseHeart To Learn About Arrhythmias Through Music (29 Sep 2020)
• Der Spiegel: The amazing influence of music on circulation and blood pressure (23 Jun 2020)
• CNRS INS2I News: HEART.FM, at the heart of music therapy: ERC Proof of Concept by Elaine Chew (4 Jun 2020)
• World Heart Rhythm Week: Little Etudes for piano based on abberations of cardiac electrophysiology (1-7 Jun 2020)
• IRCAM Research News: Musical structures and cardiac arrhythmia (27 Nov 2019)
• Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar: Music and the Heart: From Mathematics to the Mind, Cambridge, MA (18-19 Nov 2019)
• Data Science @ Uni Vienna Distinguished Lecture, Vienna, Austria (17 Jan 2019) [ video | interview ]
• BBC World Service Health Check: Cardiac response to live music performance (9,13 Aug 2018)
• EURO2018 Keynote: Optimization and Music Data Science, Valencia, Spain (9 Jul 2018) [ tweets | video ]
• BBC Radio 3 Music Matters: Interview on music and arrhythmia (Sat, 30 Jun, 12.15 & Mon, 2 Jul, 22.00)
• New Editorial Advisory Board members announced for the Computer Music Journal (21 Sep 2016)
• QMUL e-Bulletin Profile: on digital music, Athena SWAN, my recent work, concert-conversation With/without (15 Jun 2016)
Upcoming
• Ars Electronica IRCAM Garden+: AIxMusic Debates & Musical Cardiac Arrhythmias (3-13 Sep 2020)• Featured “notable woman in MIR” in WiMIR breakout sessions at ISMIR 2020 (14 Oct 2020)
• Panelist in France-Atlanta webinar: Machines of Loving Graces, Creation and Creativity Between Humans and Machines (15 Oct 2020) [ videos ]
• Invited speaker, Mathematics for Audio and Music Signal Processing Conference, in the thematic month on Mathematics for Signals, Images and Structured Data at CIRM, Marseille (15-19 Feb 2021)
• Music and the Brain Symposium—Surprise, Stanford University (originally 2020, postponed to 2021)
• Co-organiser, Mathemusical Encounters in Singapore (MES 2021): A Diderot Legacy, Institute for Mathematical Sciences & Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, Singapore (24-29 May 2021)
• Keynote speaker, Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) Conference, Vienna (originally 2020, postponed to 7-11 Sep 2021)
Radcliffe Summer Project on Music and Arrhythmia Project Selected News
■ Daily Mail (UK): Spot problems early by turning your heartbeat into MUSIC (12 Dec 2017)
■ Science Donga (Korea): Early arrhythmia analysis by 'Arrhythmia Suite' (Nov 2017)
■ Sciences et Avenir (France): L'arythmie cardiaque pour composer au piano (3 Oct 2017)
■ Smithsonian Magazine (USA): Turning irregular heartbeats into music (22 Sep 2017)
• Musical America (USA): Composing from the Heart(beat) (22 Sep 2017)
• M-magazine (UK): Music based on Irregular Heartbeats Could Help Doctors (21 Sep 2017)
• Limelight (Australia): Music made from heartbeats may aid arrhythmia diagnosis (20 Sep 2017)
• Classic FM (UK): A pianist is composing classical music from irregular heartbeats, to help diagnose patients (20 Sep 2017)
Blogposts describing the music and arrhythmia project:
• Radcliffe Project Update and Seminar (19 Jul 2017)
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2017 Summer Fellowship (13 Jun 2017)
Selected Plenary/Keynote Lectures
• Women in Technology Interconnect+ @Queen Mary, London, UK (10 Jun 2019)
• Euro Working Group on Location Analysis Conference, Brussels, Belgium (5-7 Jun 2019)
• Science on Screen @ the Barbican, London (7 May 2019)
• Herbert von Karajan and the Interpretation of Music, Graz, Austria (29 Apr-1 May 2019) [ photos ]
• Centre for Operational Res, Mgmt Sci and Info Sys (CORMSIS) Annual Lecture, U Southampton, UK (26 Mar 2019)
• Women in Mathematics Day, London Mathematical Society, London (12 Mar 2019)
• UCL Computer Science Distinguished Lecture, London, UK (23 Jan 2019)
• Data Science @ Uni Vienna Distinguished Lecture, Vienna, Austria (17 Jan 2019) [ video/photos ]
• London International Piano Symposium, London, UK (28-30 Oct 2018)
• EURO2018: 29th European Conference on Operational Research, Valencia, Spain (8-11 July 2018) [ tweets | video ]
• ERC Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain (11-13 Jun 2018)
• Music and the Brain Symposium, Stanford, USA (12 May 2018)
• Audio Developer Conference, Code Node, London (15 Nov 2017)
• SMT40 Special Invited Session on Models in Improv, Performance & Composition, Arlington, VA, USA (3 Nov 2017)
• International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Suzhou, China (23 Oct 2017)
• Papers We Love Conference, part of Strange Loop, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (28 Sep 2017)
• SysMus17 Workshop on Applications of Computational Modelling, London, UK (14 Sep 2017)
• Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity, Milton Keynes, UK (11-13 Sep 2017)
• The Science of Consciousness, San Diego, California, USA (5-10 Jun 2017) [ interview | plenary ]
• Music Encoding Conference, Tours, France (16 May 2017)
• Inaugural lecture, Queen Mary University of London, UK (2 Mar 2017) [ photos ]
• Digital Science Speaker Series, Kings Cross, London, UK (1 Feb 2017) [ video ]
• Musikkarvkonferansen 2016, Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo, Norway (9 Dec 2016)
• 2nd Intl Conf on Technologies for Music Notation & Representation, Cambridge, UK (27-29 May 2016) [ video (concert) ]
• MERI Symposium on Music Information Retrieval and Data Science, Stanford, California, USA (14 May 2016)
• Ada Lovelace Day Live! (13 October 2015) [ rehearsal | tweets | photos | video ]
• First International Forum on Digital Musicology, Ningbo University College of Arts, China (18-19 Apr 2015)
• International Congress on Mathematics and Music, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (26-29 Nov 2014) [ video ]
• A*STAR Scientific Conference 2014: Science for a Better Future, Singapore (26 Sep 2014) [ video ]
• BKN 25: Milestones in Music Cognition, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (8 Jul 2014) [ videos | MP 33(3) ]
More @ Keynotes+ page
Interviews & News: Video, Documentaries, Text
• Der Spiegel: Interview by Julia Koch on the amazing influence of music on circulation and blood pressure (23 Jun 2020)
• CNRS INS2I News: Interview by Martin Koppe on HEART.FM, at the heart of music therapy: ERC Proof of Concept by Elaine Chew (4 Jun 2020) • IRCAM News: Interview by Deborah Lopatin on musical structures and cardiac arrhythmia (27 Nov 2019) • Spotlight: MIT in London: a feature on MIT alumni in London in the MIT News (12 Jan 2017)
• An Interview with Elaine Chew: Women in Music Tech @ Georgia Tech (9 Aug 2017)
• QMUL e-Bulletin Profile: on digital music, Athena SWAN, my recent work, concert-conversation With/without (15 Jun 2016)
• Consciousness Central 2017: Day 4 Nick Day interviews Roger Penrose & James Tagg and Elaine Chew (14 Jun 2017)
• The Consciousness Podcast: Episode 4 on Music and Consciousness (17 Aug 2017)
• Falling Walls Conference livestream: Braindate with Adam Levy (9 Nov 2017)
• Quantum Physics Offers Insights into Music Expressivity - on Phys.org (14 Mar 2017)
• CS4FN: The Women are (still) here: Just sublime! (6 Mar 2017)
• Ada Lovelace Day Podcast Episode 9: Prof Elaine Chew and Dr Helen Scales (30 Jan 2017)
• Indie Documentary on Ralph Modjeski: Bridging Urban America: on bridge design and performance (13 Apr 2016)
• Los Angeles Philharmonic's Into the Music Series: tonality and variations in Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody (Dec 2014)
• TV Ontario Documentary on Donald Coxeter: The Man Who Saved Geometry: on math proofs and composition (9 Sep 2010)
Workshop and Conference Organisation
• Mathemusical Encounters in Singapore (MES 2021): A Diderot Legacy (24-29 May 2021)
• Music and the Heart: From Mathematics to the Mind, Radcliffe Institute Exploratory Seminar (18-19 Nov 2019)
• Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Music Structure Analysis (28 Feb - 4 Mar 2016)
• MCM2015: Fifth International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (22-25 Jun 2015)
• Mathemusical Conversations: maths & computation in music perf & composition (13-15 Feb 2015) [ videos | book ]
• Lorentz Center Workshop on Music Similarity: Concepts, Cognition, and Computation (19-23 Jan 2015)
• DE-miniTED: Digital Economy Technology, Entrepreneurship, Design, summer school for EPSRC DE CDTs (1-4 Jul 2014)
• AFIM/C4DM Seminar on Music Notation and Computation, (30 June 2014)
Selected Awards and Honors
• ERC ADG 2017: COSMOS: Computational Shaping and Modeling of Musical Structures (6 Apr 2018)
• Summer Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University(2017) [ update ]
• Kavli Fellow, (US) National Academy of Science (German-American Frontiers of Science) (2007-2009)
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard: Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow (2007-2008)
• Viterbi Early Career Chair, University of Southern California (2005-2007)
• PECASE: Presidential Early Career Career Award in Science and Engineering (2005)
• NSF CAREER: National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award (2004-2012)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
• Notating disfluencies and temporal deviations in music and arrhythmia (2018). Science and Music
• From Sound to Structure: Synchronising Prosodic and Structural Information to Reveal the Thinking Behind Performance Decisions (2016). New Thoughts on Piano Performance
• Playing with the Edge: Tipping Points and the Role of Tonality (2016). Music Perception
• Music Interaction with Others as Conveyor of Relational Intent: A Reply to Cross (2014). Psychology of Music
• Listening as a Creative Act (2014). Music Theory Online article with Smith and Schankler
• Improvising with Digital Auto-scaffolding (2014). Digital Da Vinci book chapter with Schankler and François
• Audio Properties of Perceived Boundaries in Music (2014). IEEE Transactions on Multimedia article with Smith and Chuan
More publications @ elainechew-publications.blogspot.com
Monograph and Edited Volumes
• Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Tonality (2014). Springer Intl Series in Operations Res and Mgmt Sci
• Mathemusical Conversations (2016). World Scientific: IMS Lecture Notes & Imperial College Press [ reviews ]
• Music Similarity: Concepts, Cognition and Computation (2016). Journal of New Music Research Special Issue
• Mathematics and Computation in Music: 2nd International Conference (2009). Springer CCIS 38
• 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (2008). Lulu.com
More @ Books page
Research Supervision and Teaching
• Research supervision for COSMOS Research Team, and select PhD students from MuPAE Lab
• Chair, QMUL EECS Athena SWAN Bronze award renewal (2016, application praised for its honesty)
Selected Piano Performance Projects
• Heart & Music @ MIT Killian Hall, Cambirdge, Massachusetts, USA, 17 Nov 2019 (Arrhythmia Suite / MorpheuS East Coast première) [ videos/photos ]
• Heart & Music, Keyboard Evolutions, Being Human Festival, QMUL, London UK (20 Nov 2018) [ report ]
• QMUL Centre for Public Engagement: Rhythms of the Heart (26 Jun 2018)
• Music and the Heart, St. Bartholomew-the-Great Church (11 Jun 2018) [ videos | blogpost | press ]
• Transformations, CCRMA, Stanford — Music and the Brain Symposium [ livestream ]
• QMUL Guest Night — Schoenfield's Cafe Music w/ Susanne Beer (cello) & Amy Heggart (violin)
• Partnerships — music created in partnership with computers
• Sussex Experimental Music Festival — solo piano with visualisation
• Art Inside Music — Arno Babajanian's Piano Trio with music-driven spectral art by Alessia Milo [ videos | photos ]
• Practicing Haydn — a composition-performance project in collaboration with Peter Child and Lina Viste Grønli
• CD: Doubles — music of Peter Child. Performance of Prelude, Doubles III, and Postlude from Doubles
More performances @ elainechew-piano.blogspot.com
Other Invited Presentations
• QMUL School of Mathematical Sciences Complex Systems Seminar, London (12 Mar 2019)
• Inaugural WiMIR Workshop, Paris, France (28 Sep 2018) [ update ]
• CS+X Seminar, Northwestern University, USA (14 May 2018)
• Barts Cancer Institute Staff Meeting Talk, QMUL, London, UK (2 Feb 2018)
• MSc in Music Mind and the Brain, Goldsmiths University of London (11 Jan 2018)
• Science Museum: Radiophonics Workshop, London, UK (16 Jun 2017)
• Science Museum Lates: Strength in Numbers, London, UK (22 Feb 2017)
• Invited speaker, Research Seminar Series, Kingston University London (23 Jan 2017)
• Machine Creativity Roundtable, IASPM Biennial Conference (10 Sep 2016)
• Cultures of Research at Queen Mary (11 Nov 2015)
• Nanjing University of the Arts Talk (20 Apr 2015)
• Goldsmiths MSc in Music, Mind and Brain Invited Speaker Series (4 Dec 2014)
• Royal Academy of Music PhD Research Seminar (31 Oct 2014)
• Performance Studies Network presentation on Practicing Haydn (19 Jul 2014)
• DE-miniTED: Digital Economy Technology, Entrepreneurship, Design (4 Jul 2014)
• Preview of the PSN3 Talk at the C4DM Theme Meeting (14 Jun 2014)
• ROLI Modern Music Industry Meet-up (11 Jun 2014)
• QMUL EECS Cognitive Science Group Seminar (20 Mar 2014)
• UCL Science Society Talk (28 Nov 2013)
Adjudication and Review Boards
• Scientific Council, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Paris, France (8-9 Jan 2019)
• Member, UK Computing Research Committee (since 2017)
• Judging Panel, FolkRNN Composition Competition, London, UK (15 Sep 2018)
• Jury member, Falling Walls Lab, Berlin, Germany (8 Nov 2017) [ lab | photos | conf ]
• Adjudicator, Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Georgia Tech, USA (8-9 Mar 2017)
• External Review Committee Member, School of Music, Georgia Tech, USA (2-4 Apr 2017)
• Visiting Committee Member, Music and Theater Arts, MIT, USA (2004-2012)
Editorial Board Membership
• Music, Science and Technology Series, Scholarly Committee (since 2018)
• Frontiers in Digital Humanities, Associate Editor of Digital Musicology (since 2017)
• Springer book series on Computational Music Science, Advisory Board (since 2017)
• Computer Music Journal, Editorial Advisory Board (since 2016)
• Music Theory Spectrum, Editorial Board (since 2014-2017)
• Journal of New Music Research, Editorial Board (since 2010-2017)
• Computing in Musicology, Editors' Panel (since 2005)
• Journal of Mathematics and Music, Founding Editorial Board (since 2004)
• Journal of Music and Meaning, Founding Associate Editor (since 2004)
• ACM Computers in Entertainment, Founding Associate Editor (since 2002)
