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New CardioPulse article: Seeing music’s effect on the heart 

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Happy to announce the online publication of our new CardioPulse article in the European Heart Journal, Seeing music’s effect on the heart, on real-time and retrospective visualisation, listening, annotation for music theranostics. The print version will appear in issue 45(41). The article introduces the CosmoNote web viewer, player, and annotator for music and linked biosignals, and the HeartFM app for real-time visualisation and capture of music-based cardiorespiratory data, in support of music heart theranostics. Thanks to the then section editor Francesco Paneni for the invitation and managing editor Amelia Meier for seeing the project to fruition.

Elaine Chew, Lawrence Fyfe, Charles Picasso, Pier Lambiase (2024). Seeing music’s effect on the heart, European Heart Journal, 45(41); ehae436. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae436

Example HeartFM demo with player and two listeners’ electrocardiographic traces, respiration, and heart rate variability visualised and captured in real time.

Video 1 in https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae436. HeartFM demonstration live: Richard Strauss’ Burleske (cadenza): real-time visualization of one player’s and two listeners’ electrocardiographic traces, RR intervals, respiration, RMSSD, and LF/HF ratios at the Barts900 presentation by Professors Elaine Chew and Pier Lambiase, The Musical Heart – Cardiac health and pathology through a musical lens – the YouTube short can also be viewed at bit.ly/HeartFM-demo-Barts900 (more at bit.ly/heartfm–demos) and the full lecture in Supplemental Material or at bit.ly/Barts900-MusicalHeart.

Example of player and listener heart rate variability visualised and compared atop the music notes and audio signal in CosmoNote.

Figure 2 in https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae436. Strauss Burleske (cadenza) and player+listener physiological signals in CosmoNote: (a) Music data (audio signal, MIDI notes), boundary annotations (including tipping point), region annotation (tension buildup), bass note/chord annotations (A,…,A, D); (b) player’s RMSSD; (c) listener’s RMSSD. Listen and see more music and cardiorespiratory information at cosmonote.isd.kcl.ac.uk (username: ehj-guest; password: music-heart)

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