I have performed with a range of technologies: musa_rt tonal analysis and visualisations (since 2003), heartfm heart-breath visualisations (since 2020), somax2 generative AI agents (since 2024), and more. For a more complete list of upcoming and past events, please see Events.
Somax2 + HeartFM
Elaine Chew, piano, Thierry Miroglio, percussions, Gérard Assayag, somax2 AI agents : Musicacoustica Hangzhou 2025; Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, Night of Ideas, London, 2025 (performance, rehearsal); ARTE documentary The Future of Music preview, IRCAM, Paris 2024; MES2024 Closing Concert Mystery Machines : Elez / Boulaine (with Gérard Assayag, somax2) semi-improvised performance with real-time heartfm visuals of performer heartbeats, breathing, and heart rate variability (software engineer: Charles Picasso), Singapore 2024
HeartFM
Hilary Sturt, violin, Ian Pressland, cello, Elaine Chew, piano play movements from the Schubert Op.100 & Ravel Trios at the Yamaha-NEXO System Designer Conference Vienna 2025; Slice of MIT : Music to Make the Heart Sing, MIT Alumni Association 2025; Barts 900, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 2023; KCL STEM Lecture London 2024
Chew, E, L Fyfe, C Picasso, P Lambiase. (2024). Seeing Music’s Effect on the Heart. Eur Heart J. 2024 Nov 7;45(41):4359-4363.. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae436
MuSA.RT
Los Angeles Philharmonic Inside the Music : See What You Hear . Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini var 18 (Interview by Brian Lauritzen) . 12 May 2014; USCViterbi : Engineer-Pianist Elaine Chew Talks About Using Mathematical and Software Tools to Analyze Music . 2002; The Mathematics in Music, USC Newman Recital Hall, Los Angeles . 24 January 2007; KCL STEM Lecture 2024
François, ARJ (since 2012). MuSA_RT on the App Store, url: apps.apple.com/us/app/musa-rt/id506866959
Chew, E., and A. R. J. François (2008). MuSA.RT and the Pedal: the Role of the Sustain Pedal in Clarifying Tonal Structure. In Proceedings of ICMPC, Sapporo, JP, Aug 25-29.
Chew, E, ARJ François (2005). Interactive Multi-scale Visualizations of Tonal Evolution in MuSA.RT Opus 2. In N. Lee (ed.): Music Visualization and Education: ACM CIE, 3(4): ARTICLE 3E (16 pages), doi: 10.1145/1095534.1095545
Chew, E, ARJ François (2003). MuSA.RT – Music on the Spiral Array . Real-Time. In Proceedings ACM MM, Berkeley, CA, Nov 2-8, 2003, doi: 10.1145/957013.957106
Magnetic Resonator Piano
Elaine Chew, piano, Oded Ben-Tal, live electronics, magnetic resonator piano by Andrew McPherson : Ben-Tal Sonata (Scarlatti, Schubert, Scriabin) for Magnetic Resonator Piano