Our arrhythmia music and wacky heartfm soundtracks have been recognised by an Unexpected Oscar alongside the (very noisy) Danionella fish and an outdoor sweating manikin on Unexpected Elements, a BBC World Service programme.
Many thanks to producer Alex Mansfield and huge respect for the energetic and droll presenters Marnie Chesterton, Godfred Boafo, and Camilla Moto.
Listen to the program at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4wkx. The Best Original Music award is announced around 14’20” into the program.
About the Unexpected Oscars
As award season reaches its climax in the US, Unexpected Elements holds its own glitzy ceremony.
Which bit of science will win Best Picture? Who will take home the Best Supporting Actor? And will Prof Elaine Chew play us out with her Best Original Music?
The nominations include a particularly noisy tiny fish, a sweating mannequin, and a composition based on a misbehaving heartbeat. All this plus your correspondence and a discussion of how far science infuses the real Academy Awards.
Presented by Marnie Chesterton with Godfred Boafo and Camilla Moto.
Featuring pianist Elaine Chew, Professor of Engineering at Kings College London.
Produced by Alex Mansfield, with Tom Bonnet, Harrison Lewis, Dan Welsh and Katie Tomsett.
More examples of arrhythmia music :
To learn more about how the arrhythmia music was made, see chapter in :
Archived on HAL: hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03081561
Chew, E (2021). On Making Music with Heartbeats. In ER Miranda (ed.): Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music – Foundations, Advanced Approaches, and Developments for Creativity. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72116-9_9.
To learn more about the HeartFM study, see heartfm.kcl.ac.uk .
