Renick Bell is a doctoral student at Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. His current research interests are live coding, improvisation, algorithmic composition, and other generative art. He strongly advocates open source software and the Linux operating system.

He is the author of Conductive, a library for live coding in the Haskell programming language, and is currently using it to explore algorithmically-generated bass music.

He has done doctoral studies at the Sound Media Representation Laboratory at Tokyo Denki University in Tokyo, Japan. He has a masters degree in music technology from Indiana University and an interdisciplinary bachelors degree from Texas Tech University.

He has lived in Tokyo since 2006. Previously, he lived in Taipei, Taiwan (2001-2006), and New York City (1999-2001). He is from west Texas.

His website can be found at this URL: http://renickbell.net

He operates the label the3rd2nd with Jason Landers: http://the3rd2nd.com