Donations

From the out­set, I have viewed the Bol Processor project as a research endeav­or rather than a straight­for­ward soft­ware design project. Its focus is on "com­pu­ta­tion­al musi­col­o­gy," which involves using com­pu­ta­tion­al mod­els to explore musi­col­o­gy across and beyond cul­tur­al boundaries.

This project rep­re­sents a long-term com­mit­ment to devel­op­ing music cre­ation soft­ware that address­es musi­co­log­i­cal chal­lenges, rather than sim­ply cre­at­ing tools for recom­bin­ing pre-composed music or sound frag­ments. Our cur­rent goal is to inte­grate this approach with high-quality music and sound edi­tors used by com­posers and sound designers.

The Bol Processor mod­el could eas­i­ly be extend­ed to oth­er activ­i­ties such as sched­ul­ing, siz­ing and pre­cise tim­ing of video clips, robot com­mands and so on. These exten­sions are high­ly desirable.

The research nature of this project neces­si­tates an open-access eth­ic. As such, the Bol Processor, includ­ing its instal­la­tion and source files, will remain freely acces­si­ble. Software devel­op­ers are encour­aged to reuse the source code to cre­ate vari­ants or updat­ed ver­sions of BP3.

However, there is a prac­ti­cal rea­son why I have cho­sen not to decline per­son­al dona­tions: I am increas­ing­ly incur­ring costs for var­i­ous tools required for soft­ware devel­op­ment. These include host­ing fees, the remu­ner­a­tion of "vir­tu­al" assis­tants (AI tools), and, when nec­es­sary, human experts.

For this rea­son, if you are so inclined, you can make a dona­tion using the PayPal link below. Any funds not used for project relat­ed activ­i­ties will be trans­ferred to charities.

Bernard Bel

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=WQSG23AMN7BLG