Cambridge Centre for Music & Science: Seminar: Music and Cardiovascular Science

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

Abstract: This presentation explores the bidirectional links between music and the heart. Music and heartbeats share many traits; commonalities that can be harnessed to transform cardiac data into musical sequences, enabling new ways to see, hear, and analyse electrocardiographic traces. Music representation of cardiac signals also points to the potential for music information research techniques to be used in arrhythmia classification and stratification. Conversely, music has been shown to alter cardiac response. It thus has the potential to be a powerful, non-invasive, non-pharmacological tool for modulating autonomic response. Understanding the mechanism of music-mediated autonomic changes will enable the design of digital music tools for music-based therapies. I shall describe some of our work applying musical thinking to cardiovascular science, and linking expressive music structures to cardiac response, and what this means for cardiovascular therapeutics and diagnostics.
Period24 Jan 2023
Held atCambridge University, Centre for Music and Science, United Kingdom
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • music science
  • cardiovascular science
  • computational science

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