Music Composition, Performance, & Audio Production
Journal SEAMUS: Essay published
Essay published in Journal SEAMUS
My short essay "AI in Music: Why Would Anyone Want It?" was published in Journal SEAMUS, Vol. 33, Nos. 1-2, page 9, March 2025. This essay is part of "Colloquy: Perspectives on AI in Music,"
ten essays of varying viewpoints.
Due to a publication backlog of the Journal, this issue is dated Spring/Fall 2022.
Ambisonics
Ambisonics: Tips and Techniques for Kyma Users
The two PDF files below (tested and ready to download and use) represent my tips for Kyma users to produce 3D ambisonic audio mixes of their fixed-media audio projects. The basic plan is to create the audio files using Kyma, and then import that audio into Reaper (DAW), where the 3D automation is created using the IEM Plugin Suite.
In addition, I have developed some basic Reaper templates (for Third-, Fifth-. and Seventh-Order Ambisonics) that I can send to interested individuals. I hope these materials are helpful, especially to those approaching ambisonics for the first time. I welcome users' feedback and questions on any of these materials. I can be reached via the Contact tab above.
-- B. Belet
Allen Strange Book Reprint
Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls - Allen Strange, 2023
Stephen Ruppenthal and I served as Technical Editors for this book publication project. This is an updated reprint of the 1983 second edition of this historic book. Published by the Responsive Ecologies Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, 2022. Jason Nolan, Editor. (Book published June 2023)
Research Publications List: 1987 - 2016
Web Audio Conference 2016 (live performance environment for n-users)
“Musique Concrète Choir: An Interactive Performance Environment for Any Number of People” (co-authored with William Walker, PhD, Mozilla Corporation). In Proceedings of the 2016 Web Audio Conference (Atlanta, GA, April 4-6, 2016). Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA.
Web Audio Conference 2015 (location-specific bird song soundscapes)
“Birds of a Feather (Les Oiseaux de Même Plumage): Dynamic Soundscapes using Real-time Manipulation of Locally Relevant Birdsongs” (co-authored with William Walker, PhD, Mozilla Corporation). In Proceedings of the 2015 Web Audio Conference (Paris, France, January 26-28, 2015). IRCAM, Paris.
International Computer Music Conference 2010 (Kyma real-time performance)
“System of Shadows, an interactive performance environment for trumpet/flugelhorn and Kyma” (co-authored with Stephen Ruppenthal, composer, Senior Director, SONY Corporation). In Proceedings of the 2010 International Computer Music Conference (New York, NY), International Computer Music Association, 2010, pp. 34-40.
Contemporary Music Review, 2008 (music of James Tenney)
“Theoretical and formal continuity in James Tenney’s music.”
Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, Routledge (London), February 2008, pp. 23-45.
Organised Sound, 2003 (Kyma real-time performance)
“Live performance interaction for humans and machines in the early twenty-first century: one composer's aesthetics for composition and performance practice.”
Organised Sound, Vol. 8, No. 3, Cambridge University Press, December 2003, pp. 305-312.
International Computer Music Conference 2003 (Kyma real-time performance)
“Compositional and programming issues Within Lyra, a fully interactive performance environment for violin and Kyma.” In Proceedings of the 2003 International Computer Music Conference (Singapore), International Computer Music Association, September 2003,
pp. 91-94.
International Computer Music Conference 1996 (Improvisation Builder real-time performance)
“Applying Improvisation Builder to Interactive Composition with MIDI Piano” (co-authored with William Walker, Ph.D., Apple Computer/Xerox PARC). In Proceedings of the 1996 International Computer Music Conference (Hong Kong), International Computer Music Association, 1996, pp. 386-89.
Journal SEAMUS, 1996 (tape music dialogue)
“Things You Need to Think About Before You Write Your Next Tape Piece: Discussion in the Style of a Medieval Dialog Between Two Contemporary Composers” (co-authored with Jim McManus, DMA, Ohlone College).
Journal SEAMUS, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Vol. 11, No. 2, November 1996, pp. 4-7.
International Computer Music Conference 1992 (Kyma programming)
“Toward a unification of algorithmic composition, real-time software synthesis, and live performance interaction.” In Proceedings of the 1992 International Computer Music Conference (San Jose, CA), International Computer Music Association, 1992, pp. 158-161.
International Computer Music Conference 1991 (Kyma programming)
“Proportional recursive stochastic composition using COMP2, a Smalltalk-80 composition program within the Kyma digital synthesis system.” In Proceedings of the 1991 International Computer Music Conference (Montreal, Canada), International Computer Music Association, 1991, pp. 513-516.
DMA Dissertation, 1990 (music of James Tenney)
An examination of the theories and compositions of James Tenney, 1982-1985. DMA Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990.
Perspectives of New Music, 1987 (interview with James Tenney)
“An Interview with James Tenney.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 25, No. 1/2, Winter-Summer 1987, pp. 459-466.