Hmm, de titel van deze bijdrage is enigszins misleidend. Het is namelijk zo dat elke sequens op een of andere manier een trope is. Dus ‘over tropen’ zou hebben kunnen volstaan. Anderzijds, omdat van alle tropen de sequensen de beroemdste zijn en het meeste voorkwamen in de Middeleeuwse muziek, en ook omdat volgens bepaalde... Continue Reading →
Just a quick and tiny silly thing amidst all the seriousness. Google's Streetview has protected Shakespeare's privacy by blurring his face: London, British Library, at the junction Midland Road - Euston Road. Cheers!
Belgium has lived through a terrible tragedy this week, with 22 children (of which seven from The Netherlands and one from Germany) dying in a coach crash in a Swiss tunnel. Six adults died in the horrible crash as well, and 24 other children were wounded. Our hearts go out to the dead and the... Continue Reading →
A communication that reflects a topological research approach Nyrnes (2006) suggests talking about art research in spatial or topological terms, where “creativity is a matter of being aware of the topoi in order to choose new paths”. Subsequently, three topoi of artistic research are presented. First, there’s the ‘own language’ topos, where the storytelling and... Continue Reading →
Hildegard von Bingen is een buitenbeentje. Over deze krachtige en prachtige vrouw weten we niet alles wat we zouden willen weten, en dat is erg jammer, maar misschien heeft net dat er toe bijgedragen dat zij tot op vandaag een bijzondere, mythische, ja heilige status inneemt te midden van alle Middeleeuwse figuren. (Hoewel in de loop... Continue Reading →
If the term artistic research is used “to denote that domain of research and development in which the practice of art [...] plays a constitutive role in a methodological sense” (Borgdorff 2006: 21), then writing about artistic research should create the opportunity to show how this constitutive role of artistic practice actually takes place in... Continue Reading →
New CD release (expected 20 March 2012), with cover artwork by Hilde Vertommen. Available at your CD shop (Harmonia Mundi distribution), or visit http://www.le-bricoleur.com
Psallentes Oude Muziek 