These publications explain the theoretical basis and research behind the Bol Processor project throughout its long lifetime. They also highlight the algorithmic foundations of the software design, particularly with regard to the polymetric model and the time-setting of sound objects.
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Bol Processor
Kippen, James & Bernard Bel (1989)
https://hal.science/hal-00275429v1
Can a computer help resolve the problem of ethnographic description?
Anthropological Quarterly, 62 (3): 131-144.
Bel, Bernard (1990)
https://doi.org/10.1080/09298219008570560
Time and musical structures
Interface, 19 (2-3): 107-135.
Bel, Bernard (1990)
https://theses.hal.science/tel-00009692
Acquisition et représentation de connaissances en musique
(Knowledge acquisition and representation in music)
Thèse de doctorat en sciences. Université de droit, d'économie et des sciences - Aix-Marseille III.
Kippen, James & Bernard Bel (1992)
https://hal.science/halshs-00004506v1
Modelling music with grammars: formal language representation in the Bol Processor.
In A. Marsden & A. Pople (eds.) Computer Representations and Models in Music, London, Academic Press, 1992: 207-238.
Kippen, James & Bernard Bel (1992)
https://hal.science/hal-00256386v1
Bol Processor Grammars
In Mira Balaban, Otto Laske et Kemal Ebcioglu (eds.) Understanding Music with AI, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Press, Menlo Park CA: 366-400.
Kippen, James & Bernard Bel (1992)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/133905.133909
Symbolic and sonic representations of sound-object structures
In Mira Balaban, Otto Laske et Kemal Ebcioglu (eds.) Understanding Music with AI, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Press, Menlo Park CA: 64-110.
Extended version: Two algorithms for the instantiation of structures of musical objects
Kippen, James & Bernard Bel (1992)
https://hal.science/hal-00256385v1
Modelling improvisatory and compositional processes
In Denise Penrose & Ray Lauzanna (eds.) Languages of Design, 1. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam: 11-26.
Bel, Bernard (1992)
Time-setting of sound-objects: a constraint-satisfaction approach
International Workshop on Sonic Representation and Transform, Trieste (Italy), 26-30 October.
Bel, Bernard (1998)
https://hal.science/hal-00250274
Migrating Musical Concepts - an overview of the Bol Processor
Computer Music Journal, Vol. 22, 2: 56-64.
Bel, Bernard (2001)
https://hal.science/hal-00134179v1
Rationalizing musical time: syntactic and symbolic-numeric approaches
In Clarence Barlow, (ed.) The Ratio Book. Den Haag: Royal Conservatory - Institute of Sonology: 86-101.
QAVAID
Kippen, James & Bernard Bel (1989)
https://hal.science/halshs-00004505
The identification and modelling of a percussion ‘language', and the Emergence of Musical Concepts in a machine-learning experimental set-up
Computers and the Humanities, 23 (3): 119-214.
Bel, Bernard (1990)
https://hal.science/hal-00275789v2
Inférence de langages réguliers
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Journées Françaises de l'Apprentissage, Lannion, France : 5-27.
MUSICOLOGY
Arnold, E. James (1982)
A Mathematical Model of the Shruti-Swara-Grama-Murcchana-Jati System
Journal of the Sangit Natak Akademi, New Delhi 1982.
Bel, Bernard (1988)
A Mathematical Discussion of the Ancient Theory of Scales according to Natyashastra
Note interne, Groupe Représentation et Traitement des Connaissances (CNRS), Marseille.
Bel, Bernard (1988)
https://hal.science/hal-00008280v1
Raga : approches conceptuelles et expérimentales
Actes du colloque "Structures Musicales et Assistance Informatique". Marseille.
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Arnold, James (1985)
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00373725
L'intonation juste dans la théorie ancienne de l'Inde : ses applications aux musiques modale et harmonique
Revue de musicologie, JSTOR, 71e (1-2), p.11-38.
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