User:Belbernard

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[edit] Bernard BEL

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Research enginer in the French National centre for scientific research (CNRS)

Laboratoire Parole et Langage, UMR 6057 CNRS - Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France)

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Bernard Bel is a computer scientist with background in mechanical engineering and electronics. Since 1979 he has been collaborating with anthropologists, musicologists and musicians on a scientific study of North Indian melodic and rhythmic systems. His first contribution was a digitally programmable instrument - the Shruti Harmonium - for experiments with microtonal scales. In 1981 he built a sophisticated real-time Melodic Movement Analyser (MMA) with the aid of which he developed automatic transcription and analysis of raga music (in collaboration with Jim Arnold, Joep Bor and Wim van der Meer).

In 1986 Bel joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Marseille to work on algorithms for automatic rule generation derived from hypotheses on training methods in traditional tabla (in collaboration with Jim Kippen). He studied artificial intelligence and graduated with a PhD in theoretical computer science in 1990.

Between 1994 and 1998, Bel was deputed to Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH, New Delhi) to carry on projects in the field of computational musicology (see [Information technology and musical composition]).

During the same period of time, he coordinated CSH's research scheme Culture, Communication and Power and is currently involved in the last phase of publication a three-volume series on Communication Processes (with Jan Brouwer, Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi and the late Guy Poitevin).

Bel's interest in popular artistic expression led him to undertake an important multimedia documentation project with the Centre for Cooperative Research in Social Sciences (CCRSS, Pune) directed by the late Guy Poitevin and Hema Rairkar. In this project, musical data is linked with information about performers, locations, social groups. The analysis of this data is based on both musicological and linguistic queries.

At present, Bernard Bel is a member of Laboratoire Parole et Langage (UMR 6057 CNRS, Aix-en-Provence University, France).

Bel's research work has been mainly focused on innovative music forms - different ways of associating musical experience with information technology - and questioning the usual dichotomy modernity/tradition outside western cosmopolitan culture.

His interaction with Western and Indian musicians resulted in the development of a computer environment for music composition (Bol Processor BP2) which won the Bourges 1997 international award of computer-aided composition and realization software. The Bol Processor project focused on the development of new syntactic operators adapted to western contemporary music, shape editors for Carnatic music, and links with other music environments, notably QuickTime and (real-time) Csound. Since 2006, development is being carried over in the framework of an open-source project in collaboration with Anthony Kozar (see [SourceForge project]).

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This user comes from France.