Curriculum vitae
Bas Cornelissen
Education
2023–2025
Master historical voice with Xenia Meijer Conservatorium van Amsterdam
2018–2022
Classical voice with Karin van der Poel HKU/Utrechts Conservatorium (Propedeuse)
2017–2023
PhD in computational musicology Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam. Supervised by Jelle Zuidema, John Ashley Burgoyne and Henkjan Honing.
2014–2017
Master of Logic, major mathematics University of Amsterdam. Masters thesis on Bayesian models of language evolution.
2010–2014
BSc Bèta-gamma, major mathematics University of Amsterdam. Bachelor's thesis on non-measurable sets.
2004–2010
Christelijk Gymnasium Utrecht
Awards
2014
ASML Technology Scholarship
Honorary member of study association Spectrum
2020
Best paper award ISMIR 2020 Award for the best multi-disciplinary research at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference in 2020
Research
2025
Cornelissen, B. (2025). Rhythmic Segment Analysis: Conceptualizing, Visualizing and Measuring Rhythmic Data. UvA Dare.
Cornelissen, B. (2025). Beyond the nPVI [Poster].
2024
Cornelissen, B. (2024). Measuring Musics: Notes on Modes, Motifs, and Melodies [Phdthesis]. University of Amsterdam.
Cornelissen, B., Braithwaite, T., Burgoyne, J. A., & Haug, A. (2024). The Helping Hand: A Computational Perspective on Guidonian Solmisation. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, 97.
2022
Cornelissen, B., Zuidema, W., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2022). Understanding Automatic Mode Classification in Western Plainchant. 50th Medieval and Renaissance International Music Conference (MedRen 2022).
2021
Cornelissen, B., Zuidema, W., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2021). Catafolk: Cataloguing Folk Music Datasets for Comparative Musicology. International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology.
Cornelissen, B., Zuidema, W., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2021). Cosine Contours: a Multipurpose Representation for Melodies. Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.
Cornelissen, B., Zuidema, W., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2021). Musical Modes as Statistical Modes: Classifying Modi in Gregorian Chant. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music.
Cornelissen, B., Zuidema, W., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2021). Fixing Huron’s Contour Typology. Poster presented at the Low Countries Music Network Meeting.
2020
Cornelissen, B., Zuidema, W., & Burgoyne, J. A. (2020). Mode Classification and Natural Units in Plainchant. Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 869–875.
Talks
2023
Is muziek universeel? Interdisciplinair Congres Amsterdam (ICA)
Evolution of music and musicality Guest lecture in the course “Evolution: Culture and Human nature” at University College Utrecht.
2022
Evolution of music and musicality Guest lecture in the course “Evolution: Culture and Human nature” at University College Utrecht
Logical music: Writing algorithms to recompose the music of Arvo Pärt Talk in the Cool Logic seminar of the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (UvA)
2021
Muziek en Evolutie Guest lecture in the course Evolutionair Denken (BSc Bèta-gamma, UvA)
2020
Mode Classification and Natural Units in Plainchant Guest lecture in the course How Music Works: cognitive and computational perspectives (MSc Music Studies, UvA).
Dancing cockatoos and head-banging sea lions: Searching for the origins of musical listening Joint lecture with Marianne de Heer Kloots in the Luisterweek of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.
Cultuur, biologie muziek, muzikaliteit Guest lecture in the course Evolutionair Denken (BSc Bèta-gamma, UvA)
Muziek en Evolutie Guest lecture in the course Evolutionair Denken (BSc Bèta-gamma, UvA)
2019
Models of structure in music, language and animal song and how it evolves Guest lecture in the course How Music Works: Music Cognition (MSc Brain & Cognitive Science/Master of Logic, UvA)
Editions
2026
PH Erlebach — Wer sich dem Himmel übergeben, wird endlich Ruh und Glück erleben.
PH Erlebach — De profundis clamavi (transposed to Bm)
PH Erlebach — Herr, wenn ich nur Dich hab (transposed to D)
PH Erlebach — Das Versprochne redlich halten
2025
PH Erlebach — Le calme rentre dans mon coeur
PH Erlebach — What power art thou?
PH Erlebach — Die Zeit verkehret, was uns beschweret
PH Erlebach — Die Zeit verkehret, was uns beschweret (transposed to Bm)
PH Erlebach — An Jammer und Beschwerlichkeit, da fehlt es hier zu keiner Zeit
PH Erlebach — An Jammer und Beschwerlichkeit, da fehlt es hier zu keiner Zeit (transposed to Bm)
Design
2023
De Verboden Passie Campaign for De Verboden Passie, the Dutch première of Maximilian Steinbergs Passion Week, which I co-organized in 2023.
Music Cognition Group Website and visual identity for the Music Cognition Group.
Fonos: Jesu meine Freude Posters and flyers for Fonos' concert "Jesu meine Freude".
Singer-songwriters van de 17e eeuw Poster and flyers for a concert by Iris Bouman and Manou Schreiner
2022
Ensemble Suspirium in Concert Poster and flyers for Ensemble Suspirium
Fonos: In Advent Posters and flyers for Fonos' Christmas project.
Fonos Visual identity for ensemble Fonos an ensemble formed from singers that participated in Meesters&Gezellen in 2021.
2021
Sums, Numbers and Infinity The cover for Anna Bellomo's PhD thesis Sums Numbers and Infinity.
Verlangen & verlaten Poster and programme booklet for "Verlangen & verlaten", the final exam of Iris Bouman
Tactile An brand new visual identity for Tactile
Websites
2025
Rhythmic Segment Analysis Documentation for the Python package rhythmic-segments.
2024
Tempera Mente Website of early music collective Tempera Mente.
2023
Music Cognition Group Website for the Music Cognition Group at the University of Amsterdam.
Bes klein Simple one-pager for the ensemble Bes klein.
2022
Iris Bouman Website for alto/mezzo Iris Bouman.
Fonos Website for vocal ensemble Fonos.
2021
Inquisitive Semantics Website of Floris Roelofsen where he collects the latest developments in the field of inquisitive semantics. The website was designed and built in collaboration with Marianne de Heer Kloots.
2020
De aarde is onder mijn voeten (v2) A modern web app for Johan Cornelissen's book De aarde is onder mijn voeten to replace the old website dating back to 2008.
Catafolk Website for the Catafolk project.
2018
CLC Lab Website of the Cognition, Language and Computation Lab at the University of Amsterdam
Software
2025
rhythmic-segment-analysis Code and data for the paper 'Rhythmic Segment Analysis'
rhythmic-segments Rhythmic Segment Analysis
2024
manual-music-models Models for Manual Music
manual-music Guidonian Hand Readings with AI
editions Collection of musical
delasol 🌞 Delasol: automatic hexachordal solmization
2023
gatsby-source-blogger-posts A Gatsby source plugin that pulls blogposts from Blogger
gatsby-source-publications A Gatsby source plugin that fetches publications from DOIs, BibTeX or ORCID.
Teaching
2021
TA How Music Works: Music Cognition (MSc Brain & Cognitive Sciences/Master of Logic, UvA)
TA Musicality summerschool (MSc Brain & Cognitive Sciences/Master of Logic, UvA)
TA/lecturer Evolution of Language and Music (BSc Psychobiology, UvA)
2019
TA Cognitive models of language and music (MSc Brain & Cognitive Sciences/Master of Logic, UvA)
2017
TA Evolution of Language and Music (BSc Psychobiology, UvA)
TA Basic Probability: programming (Master of Logic, UvA)
2016
TA Foundations of neural and cognitive modelling (MSc Brain and Cognitive Sciences/Master of Logic, UvA)
TA Basic Probability: programming (Master of Logic, UvA)
TA Basic probability: theory Master of Logic, UvA
Tutor Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Summer School (MSc Brain and Cognitive Sciences/Master of Logic, UvA)