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

Industries involved in creating, producing, commercializing and distributing content find themselves facing major change because of digitization. These include the music and film sectors, and for over a decade now also the games sector. Digitization is changing the face of the content industry, with …

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

Presentatie 10-01-2012

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 …

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 …

Onderzoek naar selectiecriteria zoals die in de alternatieve mainstream gangbaar zijn. Dat segment in het popmuziekcircuit hanteert een undergroundlogica (nadruk op authenticiteit) om zich van de in zijn ogen commerciële mainstream te onderscheiden. Daarbij gaat de aandacht naar economische (organisatorische), …

De trend van de hedendaagse onderzoeker is om het brein te betrekken bij onderzoek, zoals Dick Swaab dit doet in zijn boek 'Wij zijn ons Brein'. In dit onderzoek wordt het neuropsychologische element behandeld. Er wordt vooral ingezoomd op de mental set, muziek luisteren en de psychomotorische therapie. …

In the past two years [2010-2012] we have done research on the visitor experience of music festivals. We conducted several surveys asking festival visitors for demographic variables, taste in music, their motivation for visiting festivals, mentalities and the evaluation of the festival. We also asked …