Projects
Authorship and Anonymity in Sixteenth-Century Music: The Case of the Alamire Manuscripts. KU Leuven
Integrated Database for Early Music Alamire Foundation
This project aims to create a multifaceted database for researching, studying, and performing medieval and Renaissance music (up to the year 1600) in the Low Countries. IDEM intends to create a unique instrument for the preservation, study, and valorisation of the Low Countries’ cultural heritage, including both sources presently kept in the Low Countries, and sources held abroad but directly related to the region. The database will integrate ...
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
Alamire Digital Lab Alamire Foundation
Rethinking Mensural Notation: Composition, Transmission, and Performance KU Leuven
Music notation historically served to transfer information on how compositions should be performed. In the decades around 1500, surviving music sources bear witness to a complex process of manuscript transmission, through which notational aspects change significantly. This transmission has long been a focus of the musicological discipline, with scholars drawing up stemmata for compositions showing relationships between the source readings. ...
Rethinking Mensural Notation: Composition, Transmission, and Performance Alamire Foundation
Alamire Digital Lab KU Leuven
In accordance with its mission to undertake and coordinate the study of the musical past of the Low Countries, the Alamire Foundation has undertaken a large-scale digitisation program. This project involves the development of the Alamire Digital Lab (ADL) and the construction of the Integrated Database for Early Music (IDEM). The ADL is a high-technology centre equipped with state-of-the-art material allowing manuscript and ...
Peter Paul Rubens and the distribution of secret knowledge in Antwerp and Italy. Ghent University
This project will discuss the possesson, circulation and exchange of learned and secret knowledge in Antwerp and Italy, foucusing on Rubens's interaction with leading scholars of his time and his pupils. In order tot do so it will particularly focus on the books, manuscripts, gnostic gems and some antiquities belonging to the artist's collections as a representation of his attitude towards the appropriation of occult knowledge.
Life-Time. Re-investigating Phenomenological Analyses of Death and Human Mortality with Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl KU Leuven
Phenomenologists have debated death and human finitude for more than a century. However, the plentitude and diversity of contributions is hardly known, largely due to the dominance of Heidegger’s analysis of death in Sein und Zeit (1927). In recent years, the discussions on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks reinforced the need to critically reassess key ideas of his thought, such as his thanatology. This project aims at recovering two of the most ...