We, humans have our roots in pre-Anthropocene eras where we gathered skills for survival and establishing our culture. The cumulated tacit knowledge, the skills, ideas and experiences that can only be shared by personal contact and mutual trust, is evolved and cumulated during this pre-Anthropocene era. …

Presentation with prof. dr. Rineke Smilde at the Institute of Music Therapy on two live music practices in elderly care: Music & Dementia and Meaningful Music in Health Care (MiMiC).

Since the arrival of cinema, film theorists have studied how spectators perceive the representations that the medium offers to our senses. Early film theorists have bent their heads over what cinema is, how cinema can be seen as art, but also over what cinema is capable of. One of the earliest film theorists, …

Based on his personal experience, the author aims to examine some of the key competencies that he considers essential for facilitators of group activities in arts-based environmental education (AEE). In this, participants are encouraged to enhance their sensibility to the environment through artistic …

Presentation for surgical staff members of the UMCG.

Performance opportunities for classical musicians seem to be declining. Nevertheless, the growth of creative industries is larger than that of the economy. Current emphasis is more on touring, Internet, and non-live performance. Financial viability depends on advertising, social media, merchandising, …

This paper presents (part of) an illustrated letter to Musa Katuramu (Uganda, *1916 / †1983), whose photographs I appropriated and present in a book. Appropriation is an important but problematic gesture. Through it I try to do justice to the social biographies of images I work with, and to make them …

In dit onderzoek wordt geïnventariseerd hoe muziektherapeuten, binnen muziektherapie, actief muziek maken doormiddel van Digital Audio Workstations. De achtergrond van dit onderwerp wordt kort beschreven en onderbouwd door een literatuuronderzoek. Bij de frasering van de dataverzameling is gebruik gemaakt …

Some artists are lucky; most of them are – money wise – not. Like anything in the world, making art costs money and time (is money). Being in the insecure position of hoping that your investments will be repaid trough visibility and sales leaves artists in a vulnerable position. If you’re an artist living …

Europeans live their lives at a time when certain collective expectations of how the world should function no longer seem to describe their experience of what actually happens. This bifurcation of experience and expectation is causing some severe symptoms of dislocation. Truth turns relative and his- …