Projects
PaPiOM: Patterns in Pitch organization in music Ghent University
Music is present in every culture in the world. We as a species seem to have an urge to make music. While the diversity of music cultures around the world is phenomenal, they do seem to have patterns in common. Especially for pitch, one of the fundamental building blocks of music, there are strong reasons to believe that there are commonalities amongst cultures on how pitch is organised A better insight in these common patterns may help to ...
Before Sound: Re-Composing Material, Time, and Bodies in Music KU Leuven
This thesis aims to understand the premises and consequences of a major change in my compositional practice, a change that emphasizes the temporality of sound and, more recently, the relationship between sounding body and musician. Such a shift calls into question the traditional conception of composition and its relation to sound material. This thesis accordingly investigates the theoretical and aesthetic reasons for this shift by ...
Chaotic Pulse, Pulsating Chaos — On the Multilevel Organizing Principles of Duration and Time in the Perception of Music. KU Leuven
Through my composing practice, I developed a fascination for the specific application of a broad metric structure embedded in the hierarchical order of time organization. Composing with this approach can make a significant contribution to the perception of complexity within a musical texture.
In this doctorate, the concept of hypermeter (Lerdahl & Jackendoff, 1983; Kramer, 1988; Rothstein, 1989; Walsh & Kramer, 1991) is examined ...
Keyboard music in the 18th-century Southern Netherlands. The repertoire in context. KU Leuven
This dissertation took as starting point the observation that many fine 18th-century organs survive in the Southern Netherlands, but that extremely little repertoire is known. This leads evidently to the question what repertoire was played upon them?
The search for this repertoire entailed expanding the notion of organ music beyond its traditionally narrow frame in at least two ways: first, by understanding keyboard music as flexible in ...
Developing an improvisational music therapy framework for the treatment of aggression. KU Leuven
This study in music therapy is a component of the research project Unmuted at LUCA School of Arts. The aim of the study is to perform an analysis of the musical-affective dynamics and phenomena that arise in group music therapy with adult women with high functioning autism in a psychiatric setting. A music therapeutic method is developed to support the specific needs of this population. The analytic focus of this study is aimed towards the ...
Listening Beyond the Score: Towards an Integrated Analytical Model for Contemporary Instrumental Music KU Leuven
Anthony Braxton's Tricentric Thought Unit Construct in Post War Western Art Music. University of Antwerp
Foundations of expressive timing control in music Ghent University
Timing is a crucial aspect of meaningful musical communication. In order to achieve the intended musical expression, musicians need to control their movements such that time-critical musical structures can be adequately performed. In the past, foundations of timing have been based on cognitive theory. However, we believe that an embodied approach may offer new insights that are of fundamental importance to music research. In particular, we ...
Expressive Music Interaction Ghent University
This project aims at finding solutions for the semantic gap between music experience and digital encoding of music. To close this gap, this project aims at investigating how the human body can be given a technological extension so taht fluent activities in music production and music information retrieval become possible. The focus is on subjective-oriente approaches (such as multi-modality, cultural/social contexts, subjective factors) that ...