This is a thesis written for the owners of Zomerliefde. Zomerliefde is a wine especially for festivals. The wine is available in a plastic bottle, so at festivals the wine can be sold by bottle. This report and research has been executed, because Zomerliefde is a new company that wants to know how they …

Opiniestuk in Trouw over de nieuwe subsidieregeling voor het verbeteren van het muziekonderwijs op de PABO en de noodzaak dit niet te beperken tot het bespelen van een instrument.

Introduction to a special issue of the IASPM journal. This special issue on fan studies aims to build a bridge with the study of popular music in order to inspire further investigation of music fandom.

In this thesis, we present an articulated, empirical view on what human music making is, and on how this fundamentally relates to computation. The experimental evidence which we obtained seems to indicate that this view can be used as a tool, to systematically generate models, hypotheses and new technologies …

Gastcollege, Music Academy Sarajevo, 19-3-2015

Gastcollege, Music Academy Sarajevo, 17-3-2015

“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” Evert Bisschop Boele challenges this idea and thinks about new audiences for music in changing times. Evert is Professor (‘lector’) of New Audiences at the Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen in …

Veränderungen in Musikberufen. Es ist nicht neu, dass unsere Gesellschaft und ihrem kulturellen Umfeld sich rasch verändern; wir sind uns dessen bewusst, und es hat große Auswirkungen auf unsere Arbeit als professionellen Musikern. Heutige Musiker haben keine „lebenslangen Stellen“ mehr, sondern flexible …

This report offers an advice about the expansion of Netflix to Germany. Netflix is a subscription-based video-ondemand service that is running in 41 countries already and originated in the US. It offers video content, such as TVshows, movies, and documentaries for a monthly fee to subscribers who can …

Researching music and dementia. A wonderful relationship between science, art and a new way to understand dementia.