‘Legacy: Participatory Music Practices with Elderly People as a Resource for the Well-being of Healthcare Professionals’ was a qualitative research project into the learning and well-being of hospital nurses and nursing home caregivers working with vulnerable elderly people and participating in live …

Lezing en discussie over idiocultureel muziekonderwijs voor staf en personeel van TRIAS Centrum voor de Kunsten.

Verslag van een onderzoek waarin de lespraktijk van muziekdocent Johan 't Hart werd onderzocht. Centraal staat de vraag: is die praktijk te karakteriseren als een vorm van 'idiocultureel muziekonderwijs'?

Presentatie over idiocultureel muziekonderwijs op conferentie Cultuureducatie met Kwaliteit 2019, Utrecht

Depression is a highly prevalent and seriously impairing disorder. Evidence suggests that music therapy can decrease depression, though the music therapy that is offered is often not clearly described in studies. The purpose of this study was to develop an improvisational music therapy intervention based …

Meaningful Music in Health Care (MiMiC) is a bottom-up exploratory research project with the goal of developing a contextually well-informed artistic participatory music practice for professional musicians seeking to work in hospitals. The joint research brings together qualitative researchers, musicians …

A workshop combining research outcomes, musical demonstrations and Resonans-Film

This research thesis compares different institutional (professional) ways of dealing with objects of heritage related to popular music and musicians, and to reflect on them in relation to non institutional collecting and presenting practices, such as those of fan communities. The main question of …

In leaving the more traditional territories of the concert performance for broader societal contexts, professional musicians increasingly devise music in closer collaboration with their audience rather than present it on a stage. Although the interest for such forms of devising co-creative musicking …