Photos and video snippets from the Heart & Music: Stolen Rhythms concert event featuring an introduction to arrhythmia by Pier Lambiase and piano concert by Elaine Chew featuring music based on stolen rhythms.
Videos
A Little Ditty for ISMIR 20
Seventeen years ago, I was invited by Michel Fingerhut to attend the 3rd ISMIR (International Conference on Music Information Retrieval) at IRCAM. It was my first introduction to the institution. I also met my first postdoc, Anja Volk, now a prominent member of the ISMIR community at this ISMIR. In an email to senior members […]
Announcing: Heart & Music @ MIT Killian Hall (Sun, 17 Nov 2019)
Talk by Pier Lambiase and Concert by Elaine Chew Sunday, 17 November 2019, 3pm @ MIT Killian Hall Free and open to the public Reserve a Seat | Source Heart & Music explores the connections between music and heart rhythms. Conceived as an arts-science-medicine event at the intersection of music and cardiology, it forms a vanguard […]
Haydn’s Stolen Rhythm by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
On the COSMOS YouTube channel, Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s piece based on the rhythms of Haydn’s Sonate in Es, Hob XVI:45, mvt III: Finale, Allegro di molto. New notes, sometimes quoting from Haydn’s sonata movement, are assigned to Haydn’s original rhythm, which remains almost entirely intact. Next, the original Haydn sonata movement, an interpretation after playing Cheryl […]
Listen to AI Music by MorpheuS
AI Music by MorpheuS COSMOS YouTube channel upload: Bach and Kabalevsky transformed by MorpheuS and interpreted by Elaine Chew. MorpheuS is a music generation AI created by Dorien Herremans and Chew—learn how MorpheuS generates music. Performances recorded in Studio 2 at IRCAM on 27 Sep 2019, on a MacBook Pro running Camtasia and using inbuilt […]
Announcing: COSMOS YouTube Channel
Announcing the COSMOS YouTube Channel, where we will be posting videos related to the ERC project COSMOS. For starters, the channel currently features three small video collections:
3 Tips for Young Composers
A 90-second video clip outlining three pieces of advice for young composers for the Manifeste 2019 festival of avant garde music at IRCAM. Source: [ Ircam Creation News ]
Data Science @ Uni Vienna Distinguished Lecture
A chance encounter with Professor Immanuel Bomze at the EURO conference in Valencia, Spain, in the summer of 2018 led to an invitation to give the third distinguished lecture, titled “The (Data) Science of Time: From Music to the Heart,” at the new Data Science @ Uni Vienna lecture series on 17 January 2019 hosted by Professor […]
Music & Science: Notating Music and Heart Rhythms
A paper linking music rhythms to performed timings and arrhythmia is now published online (open access)—url: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2059204318795159—in the Music & Science journal edited by Professor Ian Cross. This article documents many of the ideas underlying the ERC ADG COSMOS: Computational Shaping and Modeling of Musical Structures. Chew, E. (2018). Notating disfluencies and temporal deviations in music and arrhythmia. Music & Science, […]
COSMOS @ ERC Music Conference Barcelona Spain
COSMOS is one of 20 ERC projects on music featured at the European Research Music Conference organized by Xavier Serra 11-13 June 2018 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. The event was supported by ERC=Science², an EU-funded public engagement initiative. An exciting array of European Research Council (ERC) grantees gave presentations that were live streamed and […]