Promotores: J.N. Kok, H.J. Hoogeboom

Tactile Paths is an artistic research project that aims to expand and articulate the feedback between notation and improvisation in experimental music.

This research revolves around the philosophical and linguistic elements that naturally belong to the process of learning music scores, including complex contemporary repertoire distinguished by physically decoupled notations or physical polyphonic notations.

Sound & Score brings together music expertise from prominent international researchers and performers exploring the intimate relations between sound, score and notation, and the artistic possibilities that this relationship yields for performers, composers and listeners.

Interpretation and Composition Outside the Work Concept

The present study aims to establish and develop guidelines for effective use of the classical guitar’s scoring potential.

On April 19th, well-known Indian singer and scholar Sumithra Vasudev will give a unique lecture and singing performance at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Antiquities Museum) in Leiden.

In the field of Western art music, improvisation has become a much discussed topic. In this interdisciplinary study I argue that in this context, improvisation is not to be seen as a quasi-autonomous skill or art form, but as an aspect of music-making in general.

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has become the standard for business processes diagrams.

What kinds of vocal music were not typically transmitted in written musical notation? Can specific ‘lost’ song forms - siciliane, giustiniane, le Grechesche, gli stili “regionali“ nel canto del quattrocento - be more precisely identified than they have been until now, both in musicological research…

If, as the works of John Cage suggest, there is “no such thing as silence,” then what are the markers that show us we are experiencing silence? - what are the performative cues during musical silence? - what are the auditory and visual bookends of silence in performance, i.e. what anticipates and…

PhD defence

This research intents to redefine the limits of the electric guitar.

An Ancient Egyptian System of Workmen’s Identity Marks

This thesis focuses on the concepts of freedo and fixity as two central topics of my artistic research. I present, analyze. and contextualize four of my works which have explicit links to fleedom and fixify and which demonstrate the dynamic interrelationship between the two.

Implementation of the new sound synthesis and analysis method in music composition.

Johannes Boer's research intends to question the way explicit knowledge is applied in order to restore and perform music from the past with the intention to get as close as possible to its original meaning.

This project focuses on Dutch registration of land and people in rural Sri Lanka. How did the practice of “fixating” the fluid social relations and dynamic daily practices into categories affect family strategies of reproduction and survival?

docARTES is a doctoral programme for performers and composers. It offers a unique environment for critical reflection on musical practice.

How can saxophone without mouthpiece techniques be accurately and consistently comprehended and explained?

From 27 to 29 September 2018 the Symposium 'Correct, but not beautiful performance: Deciphering the hidden messages in 19th-century notation' will take place at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Dr. Anna Scott will be one of the keynote speakers.

Improvisers in experimental music do not record their music in a conventional score, but in ever-changing 'tactile pathways'. This is the proposition put forward by researcher Christopher Williams. PhD defence 13 December.

In the master’s programme in Archaeology, you can follow courses on the archaeology of the Americas, deepening your understanding of this large region.

On December 12th & 13th composer and doublebass-player Christopher Williams will defend his thesis Tactile Paths to obtain his doctoral degree.

The University of Oslo offers a two-year senior researcher position with focus on early medieval Latin additions with musical notation. The successful applicants will join the MINiTEXTS research group at the department (up to 10 group members) with regular activities, internal seminars, workshops, and…

Music of Possibility is a personal account of what, for composer Richard Barrett, are the most consequential areas of twentieth- and twenty first-century musical innovation, and how, together with a web of technologies, cultures and politics, they have informed his creative practice.

Milana Zarić and Richard Barrett perform at the 14th World Harp Congress in Cardiff, Wales.

This book, by ACPA alumna Nicoleta Paraschivescu, is the first study to address Giovanni Paisiello's (1740-1816) work as a teacher of composition and what we would today call music theory.

ACPA alumnus Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn has just published a new book at Punctum Books - dis/cord: Thinking Sound through Agential Realism.

In the face of the pandemic and sweeping cancellations of in-person festivals and concerts, The Alinéa Ensemble, a group of young musicians based in Boston, has curated “Everything But The Kitchen Sink” (EBTKS): a virtual summer festival.

Richard Barrett has launched a new digital music label on Bandcamp.

In the next few days several compositions by Aart Strootman (guitarist, instrument builder, composer, teacher and ACPA PhD) will premiere at Festival Classique and Festival Gaudeamus.

International scholarly publisher Brill has released the most complete and up-to-date reference work on the Chinese language available today. Prof.dr. Rint Sybesma oversaw the project as Editor-in-Chief.

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Since 2009, at ACPA, 79 candidates received their PhD in Creative and Performing Arts. On this page you will find an overview of ACPA's alumni.

Nicoleta Paraschivescu highlights the pedagogical and artistic aspects of partimenti in her book 'Giovanni Paisiellos Partimenti: Paths to a practical understanding', released today.