Doctoral dissertation: “The Computational Attitude in Music Theory" (advisor: Prof. Joseph Dubiel) [columbia academic commons 🔓]
(2017) M.Phil Music Theory
(2015) M.A. Music Theory
Trinity College Dublin
(2013) B.A. (Mod.) Music and Mathematics (Styled M.A. (Dubl.) as of April 2020)
Publications
Eamonn Bell, “Hacking Jeff Minter’s Virtual Light Machine: Unpacking the code and community behind an early software-based music visualizer” in Volume!: La revue des musiques populaires 2019/2 (16:1), Special issue on Music and Hacking, November 2019. [publisher link][open access (from 1/2023) 🔓]
Eamonn Bell and Laurent Pugin, “Learning to extract handwritten annotations from digitized images of musical scores,” in International Journal on Digital Libraries, Special issue on Digital Libraries for Musicology, July 2018. [publisher free-to-view link 🔓][doi]
Forthcoming
“Choosing, using, and building effective software tools for research with symbolic music corpora” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies. Edited by Daniel Shanahan, Ashley Burgoyne, and Ian Quinn. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Interview with Mack Hagood, author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (2019) for New Books Network (ed. Marshall Poe)/New Books in Music. 12 August 2020. [podcast]
Interview with Rachel Mundy, author of Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening (2018) for New Books Network (ed. Marshall Poe)/New Books in Music. 7 July 2020. [podcast]
Interview with Nick Prior, author of Popular Music, Digital Technology and Society (2018) for New Books Network (ed. Marshall Poe)/New Books in Music. 18 May 2020. [podcast]
Interview with Thor Magnusson, author of Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions (2019) for New Books Network (ed. Marshall Poe)/New Books in Music. 15 April 2020. [podcast]
Presentations
Forthcoming
“The test-disc cultures of the audio compact disc (CD) format” at Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Bradford, UK. (December 15—16 2020).
“Subverting algorithmic policies of sonic control in Nicolas Collins’s Broken Light (1992)” at Joint Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory (AMS/SMT), Minneapolis, MN. (November 5–8 2020)
“‘Cracked’ CDs, ‘hotwired’ players and the sounds of format failure in Nicolas Collins’s Broken Light (1992)” at 18th Annual Society for Musicology in Ireland Plenary Conference. University College Dublin School of Music, Dublin, Ireland. 25–27 June 2020. (29–31 October 2020)
“‘Cracked’ CDs, ‘hotwired’ players and the sounds of format failure in Nicolas Collins’s Broken Light (1992)” at Department of Music Research Colloquium, Trinity College Dublin (11 February 2020)
“Opening the ‘Red Book’: The digital Audio CD format from the viewpoint between musicology and media studies” at School of Creative Arts Research Forum, Trinity College Dublin (10 February 2020) [recording]
“Information theory at the keyboard: Henry Quastler’s ‘Studies of Human Channel Capacity’ (1956)” at Computational Auditory Perception Research Group, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (22 January 2019) [abstract][talk outline]
“Designing incentives for crowdworker collection of a ground-truth dataset for use in score-image annotation tasks” at SIMSSA workshop XVII: Infrastructure for music discovery, CIRMMT, McGill University, Montréal, QC (1 December 2018)
“‘Syntax-Based Analytic Reading of Musical Scores’: Music theory at the MIT AI Group 1965 to 1968” SIGCIS 2018, St. Louis, MO (October 2018)
“Active listening and the appropriation of high technology: A close reading of Jeff Minter’s interactive audio visualizer, The Virtual Light Machine”, Music and the Moving Image 2018, NYU Steinhardt (26-28 May 2018)
“Forms as algorithms: The case of the ‘normal form’”, Sound and Sonorities: Form and Forms in Music, Buffalo State College (SUNY Buffalo State) (27 April 2018) [talk outline]
Eamonn Bell and Laurent Pugin, “Approaches to handwritten conductor annotation extraction in musical scores” at Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop 2016, New York, NY (12 August 2016) [proceedings][slides]
Eamonn Bell and Jaan Altosaar, “Applications of Word Embedding Models to a Classical Music Corpus: Stylistic Analysis and Composer Classification” at Machine Learning for Music Discovery Workshop, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2016, New York, NY (23 June 2016) [paper][slides]
Teaching
Columbia University (New York, NY)
(Spring 2019) Teaching Assistant, Theory I (Prof. Ben Steege)
(7 April 2016) Led “3D Data Visualization from Scratch with Processing” workshop at The Art of Data Visualization, Columbia University Libraries [event page][workshop materials]