This chapter includes the brief description about the background of the problem, the actual problem statement. Out of this problem statement the research question was drawn, and the sub-questions were created. The chapter ends with the objective and expected results of this research proposal and a bookmark …

Voormalig Hoofd Chirurgie van het UMCG Erik Heineman en docent-onderzoeker Lifelong Learning in Music Krista Pyykönen vertellen over het onderzoek dat in het UMCG gedaan wordt naar de betekenis van live-muziek voor oudere chirurgische patiënten. In de afgelopen jaren hebben diverse muziekprojecten plaatsgevonden …

Just like music and art education, technical education is very closely linked to practice in an ever changing world. Techniques come and go, sometimes at lightning speed. Especially at the level of secondary vocational education (level 2, 3 and 4) there are shortages in well trained craftsmen. Technical …

A colomn about Roger Waters, Rock Academies, technology and art education.

In workshops digitaal componeren lijken basisschoolleerlingen de muzikale taal te kunnen leren gebruiken en daarmee hun muzikale creativiteit te kunnen ontwikkelen. Daarnaast lijken ze bij het componeren op de tablet ook op een intuïtieve manier gevoeligheid voor de onderliggende structuren in muziek …

Music is being consumed by more people on a daily basis than ever before. Recreational noise exposure is the cause for a variety of preliminary hearing problems in young adults. Main factors are the use of earbuds as well as headphones and visiting venues such as festivals or clubs where, although …

This thesis is concerned with the computational generation of musical pieces, utilising concepts from the area of Artificial Intelligence. The main focus lies on the finding of a solution to the problem of bringing long-term, high-level structure to the high-dimensional, sequential streams of data, into …

Keynote tijdens congres bij het festival At the Watergate, internationaal jeugdmuziekfestival Sneek.