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Paiuk, G. 2023

Mutable audible: an operative ontology of the sound image

Doctoral Thesis

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Gabriel Paiuk’s project Mutable Audible investigates how that which is heard – the audible – is formed as inherent to material, collective and technical circumstances. The audible is conceived as... Show moreGabriel Paiuk’s project Mutable Audible investigates how that which is heard – the audible – is formed as inherent to material, collective and technical circumstances. The audible is conceived as not exclusively bound to the private realm of the mind or the will of the individual listener, but as dependent on the diverse operations that inform how a sensorial engagement with sound takes place. To account for the mutable character of the audible, Paiuk postulates a novel concept of sound image built upon the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. This notion is unhinged from previous uses of the term, namely those that define it as a visual surrogate or a mental representation. Rather, the image is conceived as a node in a cycle of functions that articulate a metastable relationship between sensing agent and milieu. The result of this reconsideration is twofold. On the one hand, the sound image is postulated as a tool to address the audible as a variable locus of engagement with the world. On the other, it unsettles assumptions that keep the image anchored to its traditional visual-centric forms and techniques and drives its transformation to encompass the realm of sound. The variable form in which the audible is produced is explored across four artistic works which constitute the experimental backbone of the dissertation. Show less

Schulz, V.; Adema, S.; Gils, L. van; Karten, S.M.; Baumann, H. 2023

Latein in interdisziplinären Lehrplänen: ergebnisse eines deutsch-niederländischen Austauschs (Universität Leiden, 5. April 2023)

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Karten, S.M. 2023

Vakoverstijgend onderwijs op het gymnasium

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Poel, R.H.M. van der 2023

Review of Mayer, R.; Knothe, F.; Shuo, H. (2022) Reflected beauty: Chinese reverse glass paintings from the Mei Lin Collection

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In this well-documented, bilingual, and richly illustrated catalogue, published for the long-anticipated exhibition Reflected Beauty: Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings from the Mei Lin Collection at ... Show moreIn this well-documented, bilingual, and richly illustrated catalogue, published for the long-anticipated exhibition Reflected Beauty: Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings from the Mei Lin Collection at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong (September 2021-January 2022), the authors give us a profound insight into the phenomenon of reverse painting on glass and mirror paintings, with a particular focus on those from the Mei Lin Collection assembled by the Sinologist, author, and translator Rupprecht Mayer and his wife Haitang Mayer-Liem. Composed of over one hundred works acquired in East Asia between 1968 and 2012, this is one of the world's most important collections of Chinese reverse glass paintings from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Show less

Karten, S.M. 2023

Vakoverstijgend onderwijs op het Gymnasium

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Bianco, A. 2023

The master of the roman songbook

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Leertouwer, J. 2023

Re-inventing the nineteenth-century tools of unprescribed modifications of rhythm and tempo in performances of Brahms’s symphonies and concertos

Doctoral Thesis

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This dissertation and the corresponding films and recordings presented here are an effort to distil an approach to performing the orchestral music of Johannes Brahms that is significantly different... Show moreThis dissertation and the corresponding films and recordings presented here are an effort to distil an approach to performing the orchestral music of Johannes Brahms that is significantly different from what has hitherto been produced in the fields of both Mainstream Orchestral Performance Practice (MPP) and the Historically Informed Performance Practice (HIPP). In the first chapter, I demonstrate how my approach is based on my understanding of historical sources concerning the use of modification of rhythm and tempo in orchestral performance, particularly relating to the work of the conductor Fritz Steinbach and the Meiningen Orchestra. In the second chapter, I describe my role as a conductor in this project, and the way in which I have tried to reinvent and re-implement the tools of modifying rhythm and tempo with my project orchestra. I describe my methodology in four films about each project week in the years 2019-2022. The films show how I evaluated the preliminary results and considered them in following editions and they demonstrate how my perspective changed over the course of the project, as well as how the project was perceived by participating musicians and by experts and audiences. In separate films, I provide examples of modifications of rhythm and tempo as realised with the project orchestra in the recordings. In the third chapter, I describe other characteristics of the project orchestra and its way of playing, including the use of portamento. In Chapter 4, I present recordings of the four Brahms symphonies and the four concertos that were made during the four years in which I conducted my PhD research, 2019-2022. The fifth chapter contains evaluations and conclusions. It also mentions possible future goals and projects. In a separate section I present a list of works and recordings cited, a summary, a short biography and my acknowledgements. Show less

Cobussen, M.A. 2023

Review of Aubry, G. (2023) Sawt, bodies, species: sonic pluralism in Morocco

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Fabris, D. 2022

Music and patronage in the Courts of Southern Italy

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under embargo until 2024-12-22

Hermans, C. 2022

Participatory sense-making in physical play and dance improvisation: drawing meaningful connections between self, others and world

Doctoral Thesis

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The starting point of Hermans' research is how both children's physical play and dance improvisation by professionals can be considered somatic practices where sense-making manifests itself in and... Show moreThe starting point of Hermans' research is how both children's physical play and dance improvisation by professionals can be considered somatic practices where sense-making manifests itself in and between bodies, and through movement. Hermans makes use of the concept of ‘participatory sense-making’ (De Jaegher & Di Paolo, 2007) to understand the role of movement, and the lived experience, in the way we make sense of self, others and world. This philosophical-scientific premise is closely aligned with enactivism, a movement in cognitive science that claims that cognition is not so much an internal, mental phenomenon as it is the result of the dynamic relationship between an organism and its environment. Enactivism offers an alternative to traditional models that conceive of cognition as an internal information-processing process in which perception and action serve primarily as inputs and outputs. Body, context, and (the lived) experience thus play a crucial role in the sense-making process. Show less

Cobussen, M.A. 2022

Engaging with everyday sounds

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Groten, A. 2022

Figuring things out together: on the relationship between design and collective practice

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This dissertation explores matters of collectivity, drawing from the experience of working with the Amsterdam-based collective Hackers & Designers (H&D). The main thesis of this research is... Show moreThis dissertation explores matters of collectivity, drawing from the experience of working with the Amsterdam-based collective Hackers & Designers (H&D). The main thesis of this research is that conventional design vocabularies are not capable of sufficiently expressing and accounting for collectivities‘ resistance to fixation and stabilization. Collective design as it is discussed here challenges notions of individual authorship, differentiations between disciplines, between product and process or between the user and maker. While collectives shape particular affiliations and commitments, design approaches and aesthetics, they also require perspectives on working and designing together that resist linearity, and a progress-based understanding of a design process. By means of several case studies, it is argued that the fragmentation of social and work relations is as much a characteristic of collective practice as the effort to sustain long-term relationships.Thus, collective practice is not fully deliberate, at least not in the same way as for instance ‘teamwork’, ‘the commons’, or ‘cooperativism’, are purposeful organizational frameworks for living, working or being together. Collective Collective design processes take part in and are a result of particular (often fragile) socio-economic, socio-technical conditions that pervade and shape the ways collectives function. Show less

Amaral, H. 2022

Mediating from within: metaxical amplification as an alternative sonic environment for classical music performance

Doctoral Thesis

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This doctoral dissertation explores classical music performance from a curatorial perspective, reflecting upon and challenging the traditional configuration of performance environments. Beginning... Show moreThis doctoral dissertation explores classical music performance from a curatorial perspective, reflecting upon and challenging the traditional configuration of performance environments. Beginning with a consideration for the historical origins of absorbed attention and silence as the dominant mode of performing and hearing classical music, the subsequent chapters of this dissertation investigate alternatives to this mode by exploring artistic creations developed during this research. Informed by my combined experience as a curator and performer in the contemporary music field, these artistic creations use what I call ‘metaxical amplification’: the amplification of environmental sounds that are generally considered noise in the context of classical music performances, and that are therefore rarely considered in relation to the artistic experiences generated by these performances. Metaxical amplification proposes a reconfiguration of the performance environment and the ways in which attention unfolds within it. It also challenges a work-centred performance culture, since the performance mode emerging from this form of amplification is oriented towards the sonic exploration of musical environments through these works. More broadly, it propels the development of a practice in which musical interpretation, improvisation, and curatorial thinking are tightly interwoven. Findings are discussed in close dialogue with literature from various fields including sociology, philosophy, media theory, as well as through related examples from the fields of music, theatre, and the visual arts. Show less

Cobussen, M.A. 2022

Soundwalking: between art and non-art

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Rasker, M.N.A. 2022

Woord en wetsteen: beschouwingen over schrijven op het snijvlak van kunst en wetenschap

Doctoral Thesis

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The position of writing within the domain of artistic academic research is not self-evident. In academia, standard practice is to use writing for the transfer of knowledge: it is a means of... Show moreThe position of writing within the domain of artistic academic research is not self-evident. In academia, standard practice is to use writing for the transfer of knowledge: it is a means of communication. In the practice of (nonlinguistic) artistic research, the outcome is also often contextualized in a written argument. This leads to the paradox that, if writing as an art form is to be relevant in and for artistic academic research, it must relate discursively to itself in its own medium in order to achieve that relevance. This paradox has been embraced in this dissertation and research.'Word and Whetstone. Perspectives on writing at the intersection of art and academia' is the outcome of inquiry into the epistemological possibilities and characteristics of writing. The question is whether and how writing as a communication vehicle and as an art form can also serve as a knowledge generator. To investigate this, the practice of writing is thought of as an experimental system, analogous to the scientific experiment. Processes of narrating and annotating generate a dialogical encounter for new insights as well as providing a structure. The material is both the object of research and method. Show less

Wentz, J.A. 2022

'And the wing’d muscles, into meanings fly' practice-based research into historical acting through the writings of Aaron Hill'

Article / Letter to editor

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Assis, P. de; Łukawski, A.; Giudici, P. 2022

Music NFTs: blockchain for artistic research?

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Seminar ResourcesNFTs have been around since 2014, but only in 2021 did they became an important part of the art world. Since 2021 major museums and art galleries, as well as a growing number of artists fully embraced Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) as a new digital mode of exposing, producing, and distributing art.NFTs are embedded in blockchains: decentralised networks of information exchange on which different kinds of data can be stored without a centralised controlling entity. While commonly associated with cryptocurrencies and financial ledgers of transactions, blockchain technology can support many other types of data (including visual, audio, and video files). Through their unprecedented decentralisation of informational flows, blockchain technologies bring opportunities to better protect information, especially in times of post-truth, fake news, and information bubbles. For the arts, it might bring radical changes to the ways in which art is generated, communicated, disseminated, and transacted.Despite its vertiginous expansion, the blockchain revolution is happening under the radar of many people and institutions. With this seminar, the Orpheus Institute wants to initiate research on NFTs in relation to musical practices in general, and to artistic research in particular. The seminar aims at mapping the field, exploring the potential of blockchain for music creation, and launching the basis for a blockchain network at the service of artistic research.Convened byPaulo de Assis, Orpheus Institute, Ghent;Adam Łukawski, Orpheus Institute, Ghent and Leiden University;Paolo Giudici, Royal College of Art, London.Moderated byPaulo de Assis, Orpheus Institute, GhentPresenters

Claudio J. Tessone, UZH Blockchain Center, University of Zurich

Catherine Mulligan, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
Marcus O'Dair, Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London

Paolo Giudici, Royal College of Art, London

Kosmas Giannoutakis Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New YorkJuan Carlos Vasquez, Independent composer, sound artist, and researcher

Kristof Timmerman, Royal Academy of Fine Arts AntwerpIne Vanoeveren, Royal Conservatory of Liège and Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp
Diane Drubay, TZ Connect and Tezos ecosystem, Berlin
Olly Jones, VP Partnership

Workshop withAdam Łukawski, Orpheus Institute, and Leiden University

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Craenen, P.C.A. 2022

Zwervend muzikantschap: Nomadic Musicianship

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Jonge musici die vandaag een professionele muziekstudie starten, hebben een missie. Hun keuze voor een arbeidsintensieve opleiding die weinig garanties biedt op een vaste baan vergt veel moed en... Show moreJonge musici die vandaag een professionele muziekstudie starten, hebben een missie. Hun keuze voor een arbeidsintensieve opleiding die weinig garanties biedt op een vaste baan vergt veel moed en geloof. Zowel geloof in hun eigen artistieke potentieel, als in dat van de muziek voor de wereld van morgen. Dit artikel bespreekt de drijfveren van muziekstudenten in het hoger muziekonderwijs en de wijzigende rol van conservatoria in een snel veranderend muziekveld. Show less

Craenen, P.C.A. 2022

Nomadic musicianship

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In the present day young musicians who start their professional musical studies have a mission. Their choice for a labour-intensive education that offers few guarantees at obtaining a steady job... Show moreIn the present day young musicians who start their professional musical studies have a mission. Their choice for a labour-intensive education that offers few guarantees at obtaining a steady job requires a lot of courage and faith. Both faith in their own potential, as well as in that of music for the world of tomorrow. This article discusses the motivations of music students in higher music education and the changing role of conservatories in a rapidly changing musical field. Show less

Lütticken, S. 2022

From re- to pre- and back again

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