Bas Cornelissen
Postdoc in NWO-OC Project.
Bas is a researcher, singer and graphic designer. His research is driven by a curiosity about why humans make music and what makes us a musical species. Using computational methods, Bas studies musical structures and how they differ across cultures. Mapping the diversity of musics is a key step in understanding the origins of musics and its role in human evolution.
Latest publications
Cornelissen, B. J. M., Zuidema, W. H., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2021, November 3). Catafolk: Cataloguing folk music datasets for comparative musicology. https://sites.google.com/view/sysmus21/home?authuser=0
Cornelissen, B., Zuidema, W., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2021). Cosine Contours: a Multipurpose Representation for Melodies. Zenodo.
DOI
10.5281/ZENODO.5624531
Cornelissen, B., Zuidema, W., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2020a). Mode classification and natural units in plainchant.
DOI
10.5281/ZENODO.4245572
Cornelissen, B., Zuidema, W., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2020b). Studying Large Plainchant Corpora Using chant21. 7th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, 40–44.
DOI
10.1145/3424911.3425514
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