Elaine Chew
Queen Mary, University of London
Symposia Attended
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Research Interests
music informatics, music perception and cognition, musical prosody, computational musicology, human computer interaction
Research Statement
An operations researcher and classical pianist by training, I am interested in explaining what musicians do, how we do it, and why. Using mathematical models, computational methods, and scientific visualizations, my research aims to make concrete the conceptualized structures and prosodic decisions that shape a musical communication. The goal is to de-mystify the work involved in the making of a musical performance. I incorporate my research insights and discoveries into lecture-recitals designed to help audiences better understand the musician's creative process, and more actively appreciate the music that they hear. More specifically, I lead research projects and conduct research on the study and modeling of music performance, and aspects of musicianship related to performance — including musical prosody, music cognition, music analysis, composition/improvisation, ensemble interaction, Internet performance, and performance rendering — using both quantitative (mathematical and computational) and qualitative scientific methods. The approaches are necessarily interdisciplinary, and cut across the fields of music performance, music perception and cognition, music theory, composition/improvisation, music education, sound and music computing, music information retrieval, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, mathematical sciences, operations research, statistics, and signal processing.
