Paper presented at the 31st European Seminar in Ethnomusicology ESEM, Limerick (Ireland), 18/9/2015. This paper presents a case study of ‘Belinda’, a Dutch woman in her early sixties who considers herself at the same time as ‘un-musical’ and musically hyper-sensitive. She is neither an ‘outstanding performer’ …

Paper presented at 31st Annual European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM) 2015

Paper presented at the 43rd ICTM World Conference, 16-22 July 2015, Astana, Kazakhstan. The paper discusses some aspects of the shanty choir phenomenon in the Netherlands and contains a methodological discussion concerning ethnomusicology-at-home, 'neo-classical fieldwork' and the place of participant …

Paper presented at the 43rd World Conference van de International Council for Traditional Music ICTM, Astana, Kazakhstan,

Invited lecture for Symposium CityProms, Leeuwarden, 26/6/2015

Lecture for Symposium CityProms, 26 June 2015, Leeuwarden

Lezing bij Nacht Kunst & Wetenschap, Groningen, 2015/06/06.

The amount of biogas produced in agricultural areas is expected to increase. The increasing number of local and regional initiatives show the growing interest in decentralized energy production. In these new developments biogas can play a role, as a producer of energy, but also in balancing the electricity …

Innovation Lab Healthy Ageing through Music & the Arts. Lecture at Long Live Arts! Conference, The Hague, 22-5-2015.

Guest blog (Dutch) on music education at Cultureel-Kapitaal-website of LKCA.