Projects
Cultural Ideology in International Jazz Competitions. University of Antwerp
Composing for the Fortepiano: Idiosyncrasy and Historicity KU Leuven
The idea of writing new music for an instrument whose usage and culture has been (re)created for the purpose of performing old music may seem paradoxical. But this is perhaps no more paradoxical than today’s widespread practice of public fortepiano recitals of canonized repertoire, a practice that that would have struck an 18th-century musician as absurd, let alone the fact that the ‘fortepiano’ as a standardized instrument would not have ...
"For Horses, Not Artists": Artistic–educational Vision, Value, and Standards of the B-Jazz International Contest, 1979–2019. University of Antwerp
'Performing with square and compass': 19th-century Belgian masonic music and ritual as performed and studied through re-enactment. University of Antwerp
Constructed life. Biography in the New Music Theater in the context of creation, innovation and communication KU Leuven
New Music Theater is often faced with the accusation of being stuck in traditional narrative structures. Still, in many new compositions non-linear narrative techniques of the music, libretto and staging forms appear that go hand in hand with a new attention to and forms of the narration. This phenomenon is to be investigated with regard to biographical narratives using the examples of Manos Tsangaris' 'Karl May' (2014), Mark-Anthony ...