Publications and Media
publications
First-author journal articles on stand-up comedy timing, spatial formations for immersive recording and physiological response to music are listed in Publication Highlights.
Further Publications has a selection of articles I’ve contributed to as a second or third author. A full publication list can be found on ORCID and Google Scholar.
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Pope, V. C., Stewart, R., & Chew, E. (2026). Timing Structures in Live Comedy: A matched-sequence approach to mapping performance dynamics. PNAS Nexus, 5 (Issue 1, pgaf394). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf394
Pope, V. C., Pal P., Lambiase P. D. & Chew E. (2025). Music-listening exposes gender differences in blood pressure reaction. European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 7 (Suppl 1: ztaf143.149). doi: 10.1093/ehjdh/ztaf143.149
Pope, V. C., Soliński, M., Lambiase, P. D., & Chew, E. (2025). High Blood Pressure Inhibits Cardiovascular Responsiveness to Expressive Classical Music. Nature Scientific Reports, 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-94341-2
Pope, V. C., Solinski, M., Lambiase, P. D., & Chew, E. (2024). Raised blood pressure alters reactivity to musical features. Proceedings of Congress of the European Society of Cardiology 2024. Available at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/295982705/ESC_poster_RaisedBPAltersMusicalFeatures_PopeSolinskiLambiaseChew.pdf
Pope, V. C., Stewart, R., & Chew, E. (2018). Audience Laughter Distribution in Live Stand-up Comedy”. Proceedings of Laughter Workshop 2018. Jonathan Ginzburg, Catherine Pelachaud (eds.), pp 46-49. Available at https://www.isca-archive.org/lw_2018/pope18_lw.pdf
Pope, V. C., Dawes, R., Schweiger, F., & Sheikh, A. (2017) “The Geometry of Storytelling: Theatrical Use of Space for 360-degree Videos and Virtual Reality.” In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 4468–4478. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025581
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Soliński, M., Pope, V. C., Lambiase, P.D. & Chew, E. (2026). Listeners’ baseline autonomic states associated with distinct music-physiology response patterns. European Heart Journal - Imaging Methods and Practice, 4 (1, qyag013). https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjimp/qyag013
Cotic, N., Pope, V. C., Soliński, M., Lambiase, P. D., & Chew, E. (2026). Autonomic entrainment to music structure in Verdi opera. European Heart Journal - Imaging Methods and Practice, 4 (1, qyag025). https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjimp/qyag025
Soliński, M., Pope, V. C., Lambiase, P.D. & Chew, E. (2025). Linking cardiovascular and musical change points for personalised music-based cardiovascular interventions. European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 7 (Supplement 1, ztaf143.148). https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztaf143.148
Cotic, N., Pope, V. C., Soliński, M., Lambiase, P. D., & Chew, E. (2025). Dynamics of Autonomic Entrainment to Music: Effect of Loudness and Tempo Phrase Structures on RR Intervals and Respiration. Proceedings of the Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. doi: 10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11253655
Soliński, M., Pope, V. C.,, Lambiase, P. D., & Chew, E. (2025). Identifying Music-Cardiovascular Change Point Associations for Targeted Micro-Interventions. Proceedings of Computing in Cardiology 2025. https://cinc.org/archives/2025/pdf/CinC2025-295.pdf
Cotic, N., Pope, V. C., Orini, M., Lambiase, P. D., & Chew, E. (2025). Entrainment of Autonomic Rhythms to Musical Structure: Re-visiting and Extending Bernardi et al. (2009). Proceedings of Computing in Cardiology 2025. https://cinc.org/archives/2025/pdf/CinC2025-316.pdf
Cotic, N., Pope, V. C., Soliński, M., Lambiase, P. D., & Chew, E. (2025). Cardiovascular synchronisation to music: Blood pressure entrainment to expressive musical structures. European Heart Journal, 46 (Suppl. 1, ehaf784.4547), https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf784.4547
Cotic, N., Pope, V. C., Soliński, M., Lambiase, P. D., & Chew, E. (2024). A Computational Method for Empirically Validating Synchronisation Between Musical Phrase Arcs and Autonomic Variables. Proceedings of Computing in Cardiology 2024. https://cinc.org/archives/2024/pdf/CinC2024-380.pdf. https://doi.org/10.22489/CinC.2024.380
Pal P., Cotic N., Soliński M., Pope, V. C., Lambiase P. D. & Chew E. (2024). Music-based Graph Convolution Neural Network with ECG, Respiration, Pulse Signal as a Diagnostic Tool for Hypertension. Proceedings of13th Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESGCO63003.2024.10767042
Cotic, N., Pope, V. C., Soliński, M., Lambiase, P. D., & Chew, E. (2024). Computationally Validating Synchronisation Between Musical Phrase Arcs and Autonomic Variables. Proceedings of International Symposium of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) 2024. https://ismir2024program.ismir.net/lbd_467.html
Media
Recent non-academic research outputs, including radio interviews and press coverage, are listed below.
“As IT HAPPENS”, CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation current affairs radio show “As It Happens” interviewed me about timing in stand-up comedy research, and what it means for generative AI. The interview begins at 17 minutes.
Press release: “Mapping comedic timing, Ta-DA!”
Journal PNAS Nexus created a press release to accompany the publication of “Timing Structures in Live Stand-up Comedy.”
BBC 5 Live interview
I was interviewed by Emma Vardy and Dr Chris Smith on BBC Radio 5 Live, and asked whether my comedy research could make people funnier.
Classic fm article
Research I conducted as part of Prof. Elaine Chew’s Music Theranostics lab at King’s College London was featured on the Classic FM website.