Projects

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A movement-based approach to instrumental music teaching and learning in the early years

2023

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Early Childhood Music Education
Embodied music cognition
instrumental music education
Music
Quantitative
Place, roominess and ephemerality in social dance 1756 - 1830

2023

Places and spaces designed for social dance often had an ephemeral quality between 1756 - 1830 in the Southern Netherlands and the Pays de Liège. Before 1800 real dedicated ballrooms ...read more
18th Century
19th Century
Belgium
Comparative
Dutch
English
ephemirality
French
Geographic and map based
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Long 18th Century
Music
Quantitative
Social Dance
Theatre and performing arts
The musical instrument as a form of three-dimensional writing and score

2021

This research investigates a music composition model that includes creating the musical instruments for which the score is written. In this method a musical instrument is considered, first and foremost, a ...read more
Music
Religion
Theatre and performing arts
PaPiOM. Patterns in pitch organization in music

2020

Music is present in every culture in the world. We as a species seem to have an urge to make music. While the diversity of music cultures around the world ...read more
Cross-cultural musicology
Music
Participatory and creative music-making in digitally-augmented musical environments using reinforcement learning methods

2019

This project (BOF.STG.2019.0028.01) investigates how new technologies in the domain of augmented reality, in particular immersive, three-dimensional sound playback, can enrich participatory, social musicmaking. Central is fundamental research on the relationship between ...read more
Music
Performing Dante. A comparative analysis over a two-century fortune on European stages

2019

Dante Alighieri and his works, particularly the Divine Comedy, have played a key role in forming the European culture. Through different times and contexts, it appears clear that his works and ...read more
20th Century
Art
Belgium
Central Europe
Comparative
Contemporary
Dante studies
Eastern Europe
Field research
History
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Media
Music
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Theatre and performing arts
Western Europe
Extended Characters: Opera’s Fascination with Reconfiguring the Character-Performer Relationship in the Twenty-First Century

2018

One of the foundational conventions of the operatic genre – that a character is represented by a single performer – is occasionally broken in operas composed today. To understand this ...read more
20th Century
Art
Contemporary
Music
Theatre and performing arts
The sound of a shared intimacy. A phenomenological-philosophical research into the heautonomous function of sound in performing arts

2017

In the contemporary performing arts practise, a re-evaluation of sound as an aesthetic strategy is at stake. Performers, choreographers and directors consciously experiment with the potential of sound as an ...read more
Art
Music
Philosophy
Theatre and performing arts
DaphNet. Dynamic preservation of interactive art. The next frontier of multimedia cultural heritage

2017

This project addresses the theoretical and methodological questions of embodied interaction with multimedia installation art through body movement and the use of mediation technology. The ultimate goal is the definition ...read more
Art
Gender
Media
Music
Philosophy
Theatre and performing arts
Singewing space

2017

De educatieve trend ‘blended learning’ richt zich op het vermengen van digitale leermiddelen met contactonderwijs ter verbetering van het onderwijs. Met het ontwerpen van de innovatieve, digitale demonstrator “Singewing space”, ...read more
Blended learning
Didactics
Embodied music cognition
Embodied music interaction
Media
Music
Music educational technologies
Theatre and performing arts