The Cross-Eyed Pianist Interview
This interview for The Cross-Eyed Pianist was recorded a little over a year ago. Reading it now feels like opening a time capsule, a reflection on music, neurodiversity, curiosity, and the quiet joy of seeing…
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Singing as the Foundation of All Things
Singing has always been one of the golden threads running through my life. From my childhood days with Kinderen voor Kinderen to standing on the grand stages of the Dutch National Opera, my voice has…
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Synaesthesia – an essay on the adjacency of the sense of hearing and the other senses
During my Master’s degree in musicology at Utrecht University, I took the course “A History of Modern Listening”. This blog post is based on an essay I wrote for that course, and published in response…
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A Ludomusicologist goes to the museum…
From September 2018 to February 2019, the famous Victoria and Albert Museum in London hosted ‘Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt’, a major exhibition on contemporary video game design and culture. Announced as “a unique insight into the design…
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Neuromusicology
Deciding on topics for the assignments of my studies in neuropsychology are an easy task for me. I took up this learning because I wanted to understand the autistic brain. Now that we are in…
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Meirminnen – Zwollo/Couperus
Inspired by the image of the mermaid as a symbol for a forbidden love (that beckons as a siren, but will never become reality), I made many trips – from Stockholm to Saint Petersburg and…
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(the lack of) musical life in Utrecht 1800-1830
My hometown, Utrecht, is arguably one of the cultural marvels of Netherlands. But this has not always been the case. While working on an article about the conductor and composer Johann Hermann Kufferath (1797-1864), my…