Het artikel bespreekt enige resultaten van een etnografisch onderzoeksproject naar een Nederlands shantykoor en focust op twee vragen: is muzikaal-artistieke kwaliteit van belang in dit koor, en is het koor een formele of een informele groep?

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Gastcollege in de master ‘Talent and Learning’, ontwikkelingspsychologie, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, NL

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, 17-3-2015

Designing meaningful audio for interactive applications such as video games or sonic user interfaces, presents designers with several challenges. One challenge is the fact that the perception of musical meaning involves cultural or learned aspects when it comes to tonality (Huron, 2006; Patel, 2008). …

This essay is published for the occasion of the inauguration of Evert Bisschop Boele on June 25, 2014 as professor ‘New Audiences’ of the research group Lifelong Learning in Music, Centre of Applied Research and Innovation Art & Society/Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences …

In this report the specific conditions for success in organising electronic dance music events were conducted and analysed. The Dutch event industry is currently being over-extended with events, such as musical festivals. Many organisations are having problems with the high level of competition and the …

Professoral inauguration speech, 25-06-2014

De beroepspraktijk van de musicus is net als de maatschappij aan verandering onderhevig. Orkesten, koren, operagezelschappen en gesubsidieerde muziekscholen worden uitgedund of opgeheven. Musici zullen als zelfstandig ondernemer een plek in de markt moeten veroveren. Alleen goed kunnen spelen of zingen …