News
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The pathways of music improvisers 12 December 2016
Improvisers in experimental music do not record their music in a conventional score, but in ever-changing 'tactile pathways'. This is the proposition ...
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The magic of projection 06 December 2016
Video projections in contemporary art are convincing not because they depict reality, but because they show new possibilities within that reality. Art...
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Public Defense: Discantare super planum cantum 29 November 2016
On December 13th & 14th Singer Niels Berentsen will defend his thesis Discantare super planum cantum. New Approaches to Polyphonic Improvisation 1300-...
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Registration is open for ACPA courses 2nd semester 29 November 2016
ACPA offers students from both the Leiden University and the University of the Arts The Hague elective courses in visual art and music.
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Public Defense: The “harpe organisée" 29 November 2016
On December 13th & 14th harpist Maria Cleary will defend her thesis 'The “harpe organisée”, 1720-1840. Rediscovering the lost pedal techniques on harp...
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Public Defense: Tactile Paths 29 November 2016
On December 12th & 13th composer and doublebass-player Christopher Williams will defend his thesis Tactile Paths to obtain his doctoral degree.
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Online college at ACPA with MOOC Music & Society 28 November 2016
The Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) will start in January 2017 with their first MOOC through Coursera: Music & Societ...
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Public Defense: The Magic of Projection; Augmentation and Immersion in Media Art 28 November 2016
On December 7th & 8th, visual artist Sophie Ernst will defend her thesis The Magic of Projection; Augmentation and Immersion in Media Art, to obtain ...
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Prof. dr. Marcel Cobussen at network event Listening to language culture and artefacts 28 November 2016
Prof. dr. Marcel Cobussen will take part in a research network project in London.
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What does the city sound like? 28 November 2016
How can we improve the everyday sounds of the city? In his inaugural lecture on 28 November Marcel Cobussen, Professor of Auditory Culture, advocates ...
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Inaugural lecture of prof. dr. Marcel Cobussen 22 November 2016
On November 28 prof. dr. Marcel Cobussen will give his inaugural lecture, Towards a (New) Sonic Ecology, in the Groot Auditorium of the Academiegebouw.
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29 & 30 November: Conference - The Role and Position of Sounds and Sounding Art in Public Urban Environments 21 November 2016
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) is hosting an international conference on November 29 and 30 at Gravensteen on the role and positio...
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PM-concert Lokhorstkerk 17 November 2016
On Thursday 24 November 2016 you can listen to the second Leiden PM concert of this season in the Lokhorstkerk. The musicians are students of Leiden U...
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PhD defense: Calypso Music, Identity and Social Influence:The Trinidadian Experience 17 November 2016
On Tuesday 22 November 2016 at 4.15 PM Clarence Charles will publicly defend his dissertation entitled Calypso Music, Identity and Social Influence:Th...
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Chinese export paintings undervalued 16 November 2016
Chinese export paintings have a much greater cultural-historical and artistic value than was previously thought in the Netherlands, according to exter...