Vers na mijn eerste optreden met de surfband The Mariños, werden we gevraagd als vervanger van een uitgevallen band op het Kids ’n Billies Festival in Nijmegen, 18 juni! Hoera! Want dat is een heel leuk festival – een muziekfestival…
Last September, me and my band buddies went into the cozy Katzwijm Studio to record some songs. Since then, we have been also recording catchy tunes ourselves in Joep’s home studio, using a crappy plastic 8-track from the 80s. Now,…
Since my burnout, I have been contacted twice for an interview about my course on Happiness at the University of Amsterdam. As I had to quit the course halfway, due to burnout, it felt a bit awkward to discuss it…
Cowabunka! At May 14th, I finally get to play on stage with my surf-fella’s The Mariños! I joined them almost two years ago, then Covid happened so all gigs got canceled. At least that gave me plenty of time to…
On April 23th, I’ll be giving a presentation together with (former) colleague Veerle Spronck at MCICM’s annual symposium. We will be talking about the Learning Orchestra, and the experiments we conducted in the past three years with South Netherlands Philharmonic…
During the covid-drenched winter months, we (me and musical friends of We Are Joiners) have been quite busy making music. In September, the three of us went into the cozy Katzwijm Studio, in the middle of the famous Dutch ‘bollenstreek’….
Flow Magazine interviewde me (samen met mensen die er echt verstand van hebben) over geluk, en welke rol tegenslag in ons leven speelt. Het artikel ‘Tegenslag als Levensles’ staat in de januari-editie van het populaire tijdschrift. Geluk kan niet zonder…
Aaaaand another publication of our exciting project Artful Participation! Together with Ruth Benschop, Peter Peters and Imogen Eve, we published a chapter in the edited volume Tuning Up – Innovative Potentials of Musikvermittlung, edited by Sarah Chaker & Axel Petri-Preis,…
My postdoc has officially ended with a bang. On Wednesday October 20, during a final dissemination meeting, we launched the website artfulparticipation.nl. The website is the outcome of four years of experimenting with audience participation in the practice of a…
