Workshop on open data at the hanze Research Day 2019.

In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief, refers to the point where machine intelligence leaves humans behind. Against the techno-utopian …

Prof. Dr. Rineke Smilde and René van Munster have been invited to present the music practices developed by the research group Lifelong Learning in Music in the field of music and health care to students and invited guests of the Royal Academy of Music Arhus (Denmark). Among the invited guests are policy …

This research thesis compares different institutional (professional) ways of dealing with objects of heritage related to popular music and musicians, and to reflect on them in relation to non institutional collecting and presenting practices, such as those of fan communities. The main question of …

In order for bookstores to compete with its online competitors it is important that brick-and-mortar bookstores can distinguish themselves. One way to distinguish themselves is to create an effective store environment. Therefore, this research investigates how bookstores can improve the store environment, …

Musical play is an activity in which young children more or less freely explore and create with sound with limited guidance from a teacher. This study explored the occurrence of musical play in Dutch early years education (4–5 year olds). Twenty early years classroom teachers were interviewed about the …

In leaving the more traditional territories of the concert performance for broader societal contexts, professional musicians increasingly devise music in closer collaboration with their audience rather than present it on a stage. Although the interest for such forms of devising co-creative musicking …

In today’s era of content abundance, a huge amount of resources is available digitally, from research articles to news items and from online courses to YouTube videos. As a result, lecturers in higher education have an endless supply of crossmedia materials that they can present to students as learning …