Dr. Brian Belet
Office: MUS 104 • Phone: 408-924-4632
Email: beletmusic@sbcglobal.net

B.M., Arizona State University
M.M., D.M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Music Systems -- Area Coordinator
Composition
Computer Music

Brian Belet is Music Systems Area Coordinator and Associate Professor within the School of Music and Dance at San Jose State University, and a Research Associate with the Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music.

Belet earned the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990, with an emphasis on algorithmic composition and software synthesis, and with a dissertation on the music of James Tenney. His compositions, for acoustic and electro-acoustic media, have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, and Asia (including several ICMC, SEAMUS, and SCI conferences). Dr. Belet has received composition awards and grants from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, ASCAP, Arts Midwest, Arizona Composers Forum, Arizona State University, and the South Dakota Music Teachers Association. He has also received computer music research grants and fellowships from San Jose State University ("CSU Research Fellow", 1995) and Clark University, MA ("Higgins Fellow", 1992). His theoretical and computer music research has been presented at conferences in the United States, Hong Kong, Canada, Japan, and Luxembourg; and is published in Perspectives of New Music, the Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (1991, 1992, & 1996), the Proceedings of the Japan Music and Computer Science Society Summer Symposium 1992, and the Proceedings of the SEAMUS 1994 Conference. He has also published articles in Computer Music Journal and the Journal SEAMUS. His continuing research interests include algorithmic composition, real-time software sound synthesis, real-time computer improvisation, and microtonal theories. With Dr. William Walker (Xerox PARC) he is pursuing research and composition projects utilizing Walker's algorithmic composition program ImprovisationBuilder. Belet is currently editing a book of the collected theoretical writings of Ben Johnston, co-edited by Bob Gilmore, Dartington College of the Arts, UK.

Dr. Belet remains active as a performer (bass, viola, guitar, viol, & electronics). He is a founding member of Janus, an eclectic Bay-area contemporary chamber ensemble.