From `Craftsmanship & Artistry’ to idiosyncratic `Musickership’: calling a paradigm into question. Paper presentation 20th EAS Conference ‘Craftsmanship & Artistry’, Den Haag, 20/4/2012.

Individualising the audience. The 3rd International Reflective Conservatoire Conference ‘Performing at the Heart of Knowledge’, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, UK, 20/3/2012.

Presentation ‘Healthy Ageing through Music and the Arts’, EU Intensive Project Schools of Health Care/Social Studies, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, 1/2/2012

Guest lecture ‘Entrepreneurship in Music’. Course ‘De Ondernemende Musicus’ (‘The Entrepreneurial Musician’) , Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, Groningen, 11/1/2012.

Using fMRI, ten improvising musicians were contrasted with 10 non-musicians to explore brain activations while playing by ear. Subjects either imagined playing the music they were listening to, without moving their hands, or assessed the performance verbally without actually speaking. Half of the music …

Presentatie 10-01-2012

Abstract In this paper several meaningful audio icons of classic arcade games such as Pong, Donkey Kong, Mario World and Pac-Man are analyzed, using the PRAAT software for speech analysis and musical theory. The analysis results are used to describe how these examples of best practice sound design obtain …

The following research considers classical guitar as an instrument which properly fits with transcriptions. Since Renaissance, music for other instruments was already transcribed for the family of the guitar, as Luys Milan states in el Maestro. The evolution of guitar during the XX century increased …