Projects
Study on the Health and Wellbeing of Music Creators KU Leuven
The general objective is to deliver an expert study that provides a general overview of the occupational health risk musicians and music creators face, and an EU-wide mapping of existing initiatives contributing towards the prevention and treatment of adverse health issues related to performance and musical creation.
Muziek, liturgie en herinnering van de doden in Engeland tussen laat Middeleeuwen en vroege Tudor tijdperk Music, liturgy and remembrance of the dead in England between late Middle Ages and early Tudor era KU Leuven
The Thesis explores the origins of anglican liturgical music either from the musicological and liturgical point of view. The period taken into account is from Late Middle Age and the early Tudor era, with particular insight on the mutations occurred during Edward VI's reign. The investigation precincts is focused specifically on the reformed liturgy for the dead. Infact, it is inside the context of intercessory liturgies that the development ...
Rap and Musical. Musical, Cultural and Social Perspectives on Rap and Hip-Hop in Music Theater KU Leuven
The goal of my doctoral thesis will be to explore the compatibility of rap and musical theater historically while also examining the pairing’s implications for the cultural and social frameworks of the US today. To reach this goal, I will not only draw from and contribute to research on the history of music theater since early opera but also create points of intersection with hip-hop studies and research on blackness in popular music. The ...
Musical competences in music pedagogical improvisation: Phenomenology and development. KU Leuven
This doctoral project focuses on musical competences in music pedagogical improvisation. Music pedagogical improvisation is a crucial component of music education, encompassing on-the-spot acts undertaken by music educators. The musical artistry and creativity of music educators are reflected in those behaviours. The first research section is about the phenomenology of music pedagogical improvisation. A music pedagogical improvisation model ...
Datascience in the music industry PXL
From Beat to Noise. A Music−Analytical Inquiry Into the Function of Noise in Contemporary Music for Non-Pitched Percussion KU Leuven
This research seeks to explore the constructive dimension of noise in contemporary musical practices. Music is generally viewed as an ordered arrangement of sounds pleasing to the ear, and noise as its opposite: chaotic, ugly, parasitic, aggressive, sometimes even deafening. In some musical contexts, noise acts as a tool to express resistance to predominant cultural values, to society, or to socio-economic structures. Rather than viewing ...
Conducting conducts: towards a radically 'classical' reconceptualization of general music education KU Leuven
My research starts out from a problematization of the concept and practice of general music education, as found in relevant literature, claiming that more and more contemporary discourses—political, artistic, pedagogical—question the need and possibility of including music in general educational curricula, at least as a distinct subject matter. Having analyzed (some of) the assumptions underlying these problematizations, I then move on to a ...
The origin, development and standardization of the medieval historia in the Low Countries (10th-14th centuries): a contribution to the repositioning of chant in Early Music historiography. KU Leuven
MusicExperimentX:Transdisciplinary Encounters in and Beyond Music Orpheus Institute
MusicExperiment X: Transdisciplinary Encounters In and Beyond Music considers performance of Western art music as a privileged locus for the creative problematisation of existing musical objects and entities. Operating beyond conventional modes of music interpretation and representation, this project crucially situates the making of music in a space that transcends music itself, opening wider fields of practice and inquiry. The project aims ...