Elaine Chew gave an invited keynote at the Athens Science Festival, which took place 16-21 April 2024 at the Technopolis City of Athens. The Athens Science Festival was organised by SciCo, the British Council, and the Technopolis City of Athens in collaboration with various academic, research, and educational institutes. Founded by Theo Anagnostopoulos, the festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with the theme, Tales of Change. Elaine had an interview with Marie Claire Greece in anticipation of ASF.
Elaine’s keynote was the closing session at the amphitheatre scheduled for 21h on 21 April. In the spirit of Plato, Pythagoras, and Xenakis, the lecture-performance-demonstration, “Music, Mathematics & the Heart,” had the description:
“From scientific visualisations of tonal geometry to performer-listener cardio-respiratory signals: How mathematical models of music revolutionise how we understand and make music, and present opportunities for cardiovascular diagnostics and therapeutics”
The presentation included a demonstration of the new musa_rt (music on the spiral array, real-time) app and concluded with a demonstration of the heartfm all with real-time visualisation of player-listener physiology during variations 17 & 18 of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Live Demonstrations at the Technopolis City of Athens
Videos by Abdurahman Ashfaq, The Royal Institution
Photos from the Technopolis City of Athens
