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 […]
Events
Keynote @ WOCMAT in Hsinchu, Taiwan
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.
Une affaire de cœur for Bernard Lubat Day @ Complex Systems Institute Paris
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.
June 2020: COSMOS at Colloquium Polaris in Lille
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 […]
Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Music and the Heart: From Mathematics to the Mind
The Exploratory Seminar on Music and the Heart, 17-18 November 2019, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard: Participants, reviews, photos, links.
Heart & Music @ MIT Killian Hall – Photos and Short Recordings
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.
Heart & Music @ MIT Killian Hall – Announcement
Heart and Music – talk by Pier Lambiase and concert by Elaine Chew Sunday, 17 November 2019, 3pm @ MIT Killian Hall – An arts-science-medicine performance and lecture event exploring connections between music and heart rhythms.
Exploratory Seminar on Music and the Heart @ Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard)
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University hosts Exploratory Seminar on Music and the Heart on 17-18 November 2019.
Elaine Chew gives Public Lecture @ MIT’s Music and Theater Arts
Musical Structures, Performances, and Arrhythmias Date/Time: Thursday, 21 November 2019, 5:30pmLocation: MIT Room 4-270Street address: 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02139, USA AbstractMusical performance is widely regarded to be one of the most breathtaking feats of human intelligence, but the nature of this creative act remains illusive and studies on expressive performance still lag behind […]
COSMOS YouTube Channel Now LIVE!
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: