Projects
Saints Becoming Magicians. Orthodox Saints in East Slavic Popular Magic Ghent University
The project's aims is to give a description and analysis of the image and functions of saints in the popular magic of the Orthodox East Slavs. On the diachronic level, the project aims at displaying the real mutual relationships between the factors which have shaped the cult of saints. The material will be described according to a formally elaborated scheme, the so called 'cognitive definition'.
Fair Games: Questions of Care in Curating New Music AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Sabbatical Ralf Krampe: Neuropsychological processes in expert performance and multi-tasking during middle- and late adulthood KU Leuven
Content Sabbatical:1) development of a theoretical framework that brings together general neurocognitive aging as it is typically expressed in domain-general functions (working memory capacity, inhibition, task-set control) with their neural bases in frontal brain regions and the development of acquired, domain-specific skills. 2) data analyses of completed fMRI project (aging and expertise in musicians) complemented by advanced modelling ...
FAAM: Flemish Archive for Annotated Music AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
The traditions of mandolin music in the regions of Crete and Athens AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Eye gaze in musical interaction KU Leuven
During ensemble playing, musicians are challenged to convey their intentions towards each other and to coordinate their actions. To that purpose, they can rely on several nonverbal means of expression: the produced musical sounds, bodily movements, facial expressions and—the focus of this research—gaze. Since the 1990s, researchers have increasingly investigated the bodily aspects of musical performance. While the study of ensemble ...
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 ...
Chunking in rhythm production and perception KU Leuven
Research on the production and perception of rhythmic patterns has focused on how the human brain perceives auditory stimuli embedded in a rhythmic context and how individuals produce intervals in rhythmic sequences. In the present work we investigated the processing mechanisms underlying production and perception of complex rhythms and how these processes are influenced by musical training. Our focus in this regard was on cognitive control ...
Resounding Libraries: Unfolding Archived Knowledge Through Artistic Research Orpheus Institute
In one of his many writings, the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) pleads for the maintenance of a bibliothèque bien garnie. Such a book collection, Leibniz argues, constitutes an indispensable instrument of reform in every realm of human endeavor. There exists one condition for success: the library must excel in its arrangement and accessibility. Self-evident as though Leibniz’s point of view might seem, the issue of orderly, ...