“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” had its radio premiere on 8 March 1978. It was later adapted into a series of novels, a TV series, video games and a film. See article in the Economist. Meanwhile, here is an excerpt that helps explain the significance of the number 42 and why we were so […]
On “Auditory Stimulus Reconstruction from High-Resolution fMRI of Music Perception and Imagery” in Salle Stravinsky, IRCAM, at 11am on Wed, 11 March 2020.
COSMOS team members and colleagues at IRCAM hard at work during the weekly “la pause ludique”. More photos here.
After too many months and a long story that will one day make it into a comic strip, the ERC COSMOS project piano, a Bösendorfer Disklavier 280VC ENSPIRE Pro, has arrived from Vienna in Paris this morning. The 9-foot, 500 kg grand instrument made a dent in the floor outside Studio 5, quickly patched up […]
Opening keynote at WOCMAT Taipei, the International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology, hosted this year by the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu.
Elaine Chew to perform Boulez’s Piano Sonata No.1 and variations based on cardiac arrhythmias, and lecture on where musical structures live at the “Around Bernard Lubat” Day. Lubat and OMax to co-create hybrid improvisation based on the virtual Boulez derived from Chew’s performance.
Elaine Chew speaks on joining the STMS Lab at IRCAM, connecting musical structures and cardiac arrhythmias, reconciling research with being a musician, and the place of women in research.
Originally on 26 Mar 2020. Postpone / canceled due to COVID. Thanks to Mathieu Giraud of the Algomus Team (members include Louis Bigo, Florence Levé, Richard Groult, and Ken Déguernel) at the University of Lille, Elaine Chew has been invited to present the Cosmos project at the Colloquium Polaris, a seminar series of the CRIStAL […]
The Exploratory Seminar on Music and the Heart, 17-18 November 2019, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard: Participants, reviews, photos, links.
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.