Projects

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Participatory and creative music-making in digitally-augmented musical environments using reinforcement learning methods

2019

This project (BOF19/STA/035) 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
Staging the Musical Self(ie). An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Subversive Potential of Musical Persona Performance in Times of Social Media.

2019

This research project explores how music artists disclose a public identity incorporating elements of their quotidian precarious identity in an age of social media. It departs from music and theatre ...read more
Media
Music
Theatre and performing arts
Distorted characters. The discrepancy between character and singer in twenty-first-century opera

2018

Contemporary opera tends to abandon traditional narratives and breaks the tight bond between the singer and the character. Using musicological and performance analysis in combination with composer interviews, Distorted Characters ...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
Singing communities. Dutch political songs and the performance of national identity (1780-1820)

2017

Early modern songs were broadly considered as effective instruments to strengthen the formation of collective identities. This project aims to better understand how this function was attributed to Dutch political ...read more
History
Literary studies
Music
Theatre and performing arts
Kala (black) for Kalbeliya, saphed (white) for Kalbeliya. Intercultural dialogues between Indian and Euro-American practitioners of Kalbeliya dance

2017

Indian dances have since long inspired women around the world, not only increasing the international success of staged performances, but also inspiring large numbers of Euro-American women to learn and/or ...read more
20th Century
Art
Asia
Belgium
Central Europe
Contemporary
Dutch
Eastern Europe
English
Field research
Gender
Hindi
History
Interculturalism
Media
Music
North America
Northern Europe
Oriental languages
South America
Southern Europe
Theatre and performing arts
Western Europe
Political songs in the Low Countries (1300-1560)

2017

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Communication
History
Linguistics
Media
Music
MiME. A movement-based approach to instrumental music teaching and learning

2015

Throughout the history of playing the so-called traditional instruments (e.g. violin, piano, trumpet, clarinet), different instructional approaches and methods have been developed to guide students towards expertise. Many of these ...read more
Music