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…
Together with colleague Nina Willems I designed a new course for second year bachelor students at iArts. The course is about the on-going debates about de- and postcoloniality, with a specific case study: the former Dutch East Indies. That we…
Together with (former) colleagues from the Maastricht STS-group (MUSTS), we created a booklet about instruments and artefacts from the collection of Centre Céramique, a public library and cultural heritage centre in Maastricht. Everyone adopted an object, which varied from forgotten…
As of September I no longer work at FASoS (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Maastricht University). Started as a student in 2007, a tutor in 2009, a phd student in 2011, and a postdoc in 2018, I feel…
Collega MCICM-onderzoeker Veerle Spronck en ik (samen met Stefan Rosu, intendant van Philharmonie Zuidnederland) zijn geïnterviewd door Emmanuel Naaijkens van Brabant Cultureel. Het interview gaat over innovatie van klassieke muziekpraktijken en is te lezen op de website van Brabant Cultureel.
